Grandma's Dining Room

My grandma inherited nine chairs. They had belonged to her mother’s mother, and all the members of the family sat there, in her dining room, to enjoy the delicacies that her hands prepared every Sunday.

A family meets every Sunday for lunch at the grandmother’s house, who prepares the most varied delicacies. The grown-ups sit on the red chairs in the main dining room and the children sit at the kid’s table, observing that things happen to the adults while they eat. When they turn 15, the grandchildren go to the dining room of the great ones and understand, each one in turn, what happens: the chairs travel to the places of origin of each dish that the grandmother serves them at Sunday lunch.

Key points

2023 – Cuatrogatos Foundation, 100 Recommended Books

• A book that highlights the value of gathering and sharing around the table; the act of eating as an experience to be enjoyed.
• It shows the culinary diversity and emblematic dishes from different parts of the world.
• A glossary at the end explains informative aspects about the elaborations, anecdotes or varieties of each recipe.

Luisa Rivera

2022 – IBBY Honour List, Illustration
2021 – Cuatrogatos Foundation Award
2020, 2012 – IBBY Chile Award, Album Book/Young Adults Fiction
2013 – Included in SM’s Dictionary of Iberoamerican Illustrators