Esteban Castillo: Contributing Writer for Simply Recipes

Location: Southern California

Education: Bachelor's in Public Relations, Minor in Graphic Design from Humboldt State University

Expertise: Chicano Cuisine

Founder of Chicano Eats, a food blog celebrating Chicano roots.
Author of Chicano Eats: Recipes from My Mexican-American Kitchen (2020) and Chicano Bakes: Recipes for Mexican Pan Dulce, Tamales, and My Favorite Desserts (2022).
Reader's Choice winner of the 2017 Saveur Blog Awards for Best New Voice.

Experience

Esteban Castillo is a PR/Digital Marketing professional by day and Chicano Eats creator by night. Growing up in a Mexican family in Southern California, Esteban's food journey always involved a mixture of traditional Mexican cuisine and popular adaptations in Chicano (Mexican-American) SoCal. Excited to celebrate facets of his identity, he invites readers to Chicano Eats, his food blog where he shares stories and recipes that are quintessentially Esteban Castillo.

Esteban is Saveur Blog Awards' 2017 Reader's Choice winner in the Best New Voice category and has since released two cookbooks: Recipes from My Mexican-American Kitchen (2020) and Chicano Bakes: Recipes for Mexican Pan Dulce, Tamales, and My Favorite Desserts (2022). Currently, his work can be found in various publications, including Food52, NPR, Instagram, Remezcla, Konbini, We Are Mitú, Simply Recipes, and more.

About Simply Recipes

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