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Molino Stories with Melani Martinez
Arizona History Museum
Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024 2:00 PM
A book talk with author, Melani Martinez, about her new memoir The Molino will highlight stories about her family's downtown eatery, El Rapido. Opened by Martinez’s great-grandfather, Aurelio Perez, in 1933, El Rapido served tamales and burritos to residents and visitors to Tucson’s historic Barrio Presidio for nearly seventy years. For the family, the factory was known for the giant corn grinder churning behind the scenes—the molino.
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Melani “Mele” Martinez is a native Tucsonense and a first-generation graduate of the University of Arizona with a BA in Creative Writing and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. Mele was the 2004 recipient of Fourth Genre’s First Place Editor’s Prize, the 2014 Tucson Festival of Books 2nd Place Literary Prize, and the 2018 Arts Foundation for Southern Arizona New Works Grant. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Bacopa Literary Review, Borderlore, Bearings Journal, Contemporary Chicanx Writers Anthology, and Telling Tongues: A Latin Anthology on Language Experiences. Mele is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Arizona’s Foundations Writing Program and faculty lead for Project ADELANTE’s Testimonios in the Borderlands. Her first book, The Molino, is a memoir about food, faith, belonging, and the closing of her family’s celebrated tamaleria in downtown Tucson.
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