Plátanos Are Love Social Science / Discrimination / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural even as her older sister

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Plátanos Are Love Social Science / Discrimination / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural even as her older sisterA delicious picture book about the ways plantains shape Latinx culture, community, and family, told through a young girls experiences in the kitchen with her abuela. Abuela says, pltanos are love.I thought they were food. But Abuela says they feed us in more ways than one. With every pop of the tostones, mash of the mang, and sizzle of the maduros, a little girl learns that pltanos are her history, they are her culture, andmost importantlythey are