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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How celebrity Mexican chef Gabriela Cámara came up with her famous tuna tostada

    Mexican Chef Gabriela Cámara has been running a massively popular seafood restaurant in Mexico City for 20 years called Contramar. She has another restaurant in San Francisco called Cala, and two offshoots serving up tacos.

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    By Madeleine Brand • May 22, 2019 • 1 min read

    Mexican Chef Gabriela Cámara has been running a massively popular seafood restaurant in Mexico City for 20 years called Contramar. She has another restaurant in San Francisco called Cala, and two offshoots serving up tacos. She’s about to open another restaurant in LA called Onda. Her new cookbook is “My Mexico City Kitchen.” Also, she’s about to become a government advisor to Mexico’s new president. She talks about her many jobs, new cookbook, and forthcoming LA restaurant.

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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Michell Eloy

      Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play

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      Yael Even Or

      Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Gabriela Cámara

      chef and author of “My Mexico City Kitchen: Recipes and Convictions”

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    The full episode

    3 of 4
    Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants from public housing has some raising alarms
    1. 0:00Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán on Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants from public housing
    2. 19:07As border agents leave migrants stranded, volunteers step in to help
    3. 28:57How celebrity Mexican chef Gabriela Cámara came up with her famous tuna tostadaYou’re reading this
    4. 44:13California garlic farmers benefit from US-China trade war
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