Una aventura culinaria en México
A Mexican culinary adventure
Authors: Anabelle Rossell Aguilar, Reyna Jaime Félix
Photographer: Giovanni Simeone
DESCRIPTION
Baja California is uncompromising. It is a 1,220-kilometer-long peninsula of desert and cactus, with the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Sea of Cortez on the other, beaten by strong winds, eroded by gigantic waves, and made incandescent by hot summers! Not Food for Old Men is a gastronomic and photographic adventure to explore this region suspended between the US and Mexico. The lobster, marlin, octopus, chiles, and ribs are the cornerstones of a kitchen at the “end of the world,” often overlooked and for this reason even more authentic.
SPECIFICATIONS
Bilingual English - Español
Flexicover
7 x 9.5 inches
240 pages
II edItion 2016
ISBN 978-88-95218-97-7
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anabelle Rossell Aguilar
Reyna Jaime Félix (1983. La Paz, Baja California Sur) Art historian for the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, México, she focused on the historical and social analysis of Conceptual Art in Mexico in the 70’s, writing and lecturing on these themes. Her studies of the art and history of Baja California were published in Teatro Juárez, 1910-2010 (ISC, 2012) y Apuntes para una Historia de las Arte Visuales Sudcalifornianas (ISC, 2015) as well as local cultural reviews. She was a member of the Concejo Nacional para La Cultura y las Artes en 2009, 2013 and 2015. She is a co-director of the Parcela Cultural Association, devoted to promoting the arts and reading. Currently she is engaged in researching aspects of regional history and teaching.
Giovanni Simeone, born in 1968 and the son of an artist, he studied photography in Milan, where he began contributing to Bell’Italia magazine from its very first issue. In the early 1990s, he moved to Germany to work for a photo agency, then spent nearly three years traveling the world before settling in Paris.
There, he started an exclusive collaboration with Le Figaro, producing more than fifty feature stories. During frequent trips back to Italy, he founded Simephoto (www.simephoto.com), a photography agency specializing in travel and landscape imagery. Thirty years later, Simephoto brings together around fifty of Europe’s top photographers and is recognized as a leading agency in the field.
Its portfolio includes clients such as National Geographic Traveler, Le Figaro, Outside, Geo Germany, Stern, la Repubblica, The Sunday Times and The Guardian, as well as major international publishers including Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, and Fodor’s.
In 2011, Simephoto launched its own publishing house, Simebooks, with photography at the heart of every project. As an author, Giovanni Simeone has published Not Food for Old Men (2015) and Los Angeles Cocktails (2017). Forthcoming titles include Baja California Peninsula (as photo editor) and Los Angeles (2025).
Simebooks releases about a dozen new titles each year, with a strong focus on promoting local culture and landscapes through unique, original photographic campaigns.