A Place at the Nairit by Natalia Barasa

"A place at the Nairit how a Mexican restaurant nourished a community" is about my grandmother Natalia Barasa who immigrated to the US in 1921. She started her own restaurant it became what I call an urban anchor and immigrants like her placemakers because we only think about urban anchors as like hospitals or libraries um you know these official institutions but restaurants are our cultural institutions. "It takes place in Los Angeles and a neighborhood called Echo Park which is being filmed and all the time now and it's a very trendy neighborhood," she says. 'The story behind that gentrification and all the immigrants who made Echo Park a place where people could feel insiders for years and not just

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