Latin Chic is packed with sexy photographs in stunning locations. Its delicious recipes and gorgeous people offers us a window into a very elegant Latin lifestyle. These girls know how to live, party and have fun!”
Colin Cowie
I love the recipes of Latin Chic....I love our creole food because it's full of flavors, sunshine, and Latin heat.”
Carolina Herrera
Channeling equal parts Rita Moreno and domestic diva Martha Stewart, they call their way of entertaining and living "Latin Chic," incorporating the best food, drink, decor and lifestyle elements from all over Latin America into their worlds.... Let them help you color your world lovely Latin.”
New York Moves Magazine
Latin Chic...takes readers on an international culinary and cultural tour. ...[T]he authors play host to a bevy of Latin chic friends in places like Cuernavaca, the Hollywood Hills and the Argentine Pampas. Each exquisitely photographed chapter mixes up a menu of cocktails and dishes from across Latin America.”
Pink Magazine
They spotted a niche for a glossy coffee-table guide to "sexy, sophisticated Pan-Latin entertaining," and contacted Latin personalities with the most estilo (Carolina Herrera, Oscar de la Renta, Narciso Rodriguez, et al.) to fashion the pages with the hottest clothing and accessories and the most delicious regional recipes and cocktails."
Ocean Drive Magazine
Now here come Carolina Buia and Isabel C. Gonzalez, welcoming their guests in a succession of form-fitting designer sheaths, shaking up cocktails while working their bikinis, huddling over the blender dressed in stunning evening gowns....The book is filled with tantalizing recipes for party foods and drinks from across the spectrum of Central America, South America and Caribbean cuisine. There're recipes for everything from hearty Mexican shredded pork and sophisticated lamb chops with seasonings from the Dominican Republic to cocktails based on Peruvian brandy and the Coconut Martinis served at a San Juan, Puerto Rico, hotel. And it's the authors who exemplify the “style and sass” of the book's title.”
New York Times
Latin Chic reflects that relaxed lifestyle, taking readers along on 10 super-stylish parties held around the Americas, hosted by authors Carolina Buia and Isabel C. Gonzalez. The impossibly beautiful and accomplished pair (Buia is a Venezuelan and former staff reporter for Time who has contributed on lifestyle pieces to Condé Nast Traveler, The Washington Post and CNN; Cuban-American Gonzalez is special-projects editor at Teen People and also appears on MTV and VH1 and contributes to Fuego magazine) set the scene by clothing their guests in fabulous fashions made just for the occasion by Latin designers including Narciso Rodriguez and Carolina Herrera. Then Buia and Gonzalez flit from Miami to Buenos Aires in this glossy illustrated guide, creating a 1950s style Caribbean cocktail party, a polo party in La Pampa and tapas in Puerto Rico. Details on each glamorous event are listed, including simple ideas for flowers and table settings, Latin-tinged music play lists, and recipes for the spicy and exotic cocktails, appetizers, entrees, sides and desserts they serve (sources for Latin foods and party accessories are included in the back of the book)."
Nashville City Paper
Carolina Herrera's Hot Cooking Tip ... the recipes in Latin Chic."
Harper's Bazaar Magazine
This is by far one of the nicest cookbooks I've seen in a long time—and I see a lot of cookbooks.”
Karen Katz, Executive Producer of Emeril Live (Food Network)
Latin Chic will be your guide to making that romantic dinner for two or a Cuban-inspired gathering for 12. Each occasion is accompanied with tips on the right music, decorations, attire, and more. You and yours truly will be thanking the chicas of Latin Chic after the evening is over.”
Fuego Magazine