Justice For Our Neighbors of the Delaware Valley
&
Casa Mexico
Invite you to join us for a live
&
Casa Mexico
Invite you to join us for a live
MASTER COOKING CLASS
With
Chef Cristina Martinez**
Owner of South Philly Barbacoa & Casa Mexico
Thursday, April 8, 2021 - 7:00 p.m.
Chef Cristina Martinez**
Owner of South Philly Barbacoa & Casa Mexico
Thursday, April 8, 2021 - 7:00 p.m.
**James Beard Award Nominee 2020
JFON of the Delaware Valley and Casa Mexico are pleased to have Stickman Brews as our premium sponsor.
Stickman Brewing Company
1307 Mifflin Street
Philadelphia, PA 19148
958 N. 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
326 N. Lewis Road #240
Royersford, PA 19468
1307 Mifflin Street
Philadelphia, PA 19148
958 N. 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
326 N. Lewis Road #240
Royersford, PA 19468
About Chef Cristina
Cristina Martinez is a Mexican chef and immigration activist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cristina is a native of Capulhuac, Mexico, and she is an undocumented immigrant who crossed the border from Juárez into the United States. She found a job in Philadelphia as a pastry chef in an Italian restaurant, where she met and married Benjamin Miller, a U.S. citizen. Cristina was fired from the restaurant when they discovered her undocumented status, and she began cooking food for other Mexican workers in her apartment. As demand grew for Cristina's home-made barbacoa, she and Miller began selling tacos from a pushcart on weekends. In 2015, they opened a permanent restaurant, South Philly Barbacoa. In 2016, Bon Appétit magazine named it one of the top ten best new restaurants in America. Cristina and Miller are active in supporting undocumented immigrants in the restaurant industry, establishing an organization, the Popular Alliance for Undocumented Workers' Rights. In 2017, Univision produced a Spanish-language podcast about Cristina, called Mejor vete, Cristina ("You Better Leave, Cristina"), which won Mejor Cobertura Multimedia (Best Multimedia Coverage) at the 2018 Ortega y Gasset Awards. Cristina was also featured on an episode of the Netflix series Chef's Table in 2018. In 2019, Cristina was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef, Mid-Atlantic.
About JFON of the Delaware Valley
Justice For Our Neighbors of the Delaware Valley (JFON-DV) was organized in 2020 and provides low-cost and no-cost (pro bono) legal services to immigrants in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Our legal services model serves immigrants and refugees in the communities where they live – to lessen the possibility that our clients will be targeted by ICE and local authorities during transit to obtain needed legal services. Located in Philadelphia, PA, JFON-DV has served many immigrants to the U.S. seeking legal relief, including asylum, family-based immigration, U.S. citizenship, and protection from domestic violence and natural disasters. JFON-DV will never turn away an immigrant in need of legal services based on their inability to pay.
