<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Vivir, Comer y Contar : Off-Menu]]></title><description><![CDATA[A space with reflections on the process of building a gastronomic company and all the challenges in the industry that are not always on the menu.]]></description><link>https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/s/fuera-de-carta</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A9bp!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe244aa38-8d2d-4cf6-8274-015275f8128b_256x256.png</url><title>Vivir, Comer y Contar : Off-Menu</title><link>https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/s/fuera-de-carta</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:46:47 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Tepui Culinary Experiences]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[gabriela@tepuiculinary.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[gabriela@tepuiculinary.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Gabriela Montes de Oca]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Gabriela Montes de Oca]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[gabriela@tepuiculinary.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[gabriela@tepuiculinary.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Gabriela Montes de Oca]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Karol G, we need to talk]]></title><description><![CDATA[On identity, perpetuating stereotypes through art, and what is Venezuelan food]]></description><link>https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/p/karol-g-we-need-to-talk</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/p/karol-g-we-need-to-talk</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabriela Montes de Oca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:03:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HlIu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef61b83f-9ea0-4178-baaf-174c009ca365_1728x2304.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before we dig into this week&#8217;s essay/rant, I wanted to give a warm welcome to the new subscribers who arrived this week.</p><p>Also, I&#8217;m very excited to announce that my second collaboration with Grand Cata is happening next Sunday, May 3rd. I&#8217;ll be cooking a menu that feels particularly special and aligned with what I wrote below.</p><p>If you are in Washington, D.C., I&#8217;d love to see you there. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HlIu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef61b83f-9ea0-4178-baaf-174c009ca365_1728x2304.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HlIu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef61b83f-9ea0-4178-baaf-174c009ca365_1728x2304.png 424w, 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ever to headline Coachella.</p><p>I watched the performance and felt excited to see so many people enjoying a show rooted in Latin American heritage: a mix of joy, reggaeton, trumpets, dancing, and a powerful presence by a woman leading it all.</p><p>But then I listened to a podcast episode that changed my perspective and vision about it.</p><p>The podcast wasn&#8217;t exclusively about the show, but about Tropicoqueta, Karol G&#8217;s latest album, inspired by Latin American women.</p><p>In the <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/39NOBvZDbrY9N5bAE8Q4GG?si=046f290638ce4571">episode</a>, its host, Vanessa Rosales, questioned whether Karol G is actually empowering Latino culture with this album, and I became more interested in what she had to say to prove her point.</p><p>The host said that, in a particular song, Karol highlights that the reason why &#8220;everyone wants a Colombian, Dominican, or Venezuelan woman&#8221; is that we have <em>tetas y nalgas.</em></p><p>In the song&#8217;s video, she&#8217;s also pouring water on herself while skiing with other women. </p><p>Honestly, it reminded me of the ads I grew up seeing for Venezuelan beers: a model body front and center as you drove around Caracas. The &#193;vila mountain to your left, and a billboard designed to give you body dysmorphia (but actually meant to advertise a beer) to your right.</p><p>It left me wondering: what exactly was Karol&#8217;s intention?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2mv3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F48e94c05-0871-4efa-81cc-d11c834e5f93_1024x768.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The podcast host questioned how &#8220;being Latino&#8221; has become a mishmash of the identities we have created for ourselves and the ideas that colonies have imposed on us.</p><p>She stated plain and simple how we&#8217;ve been exoticized to appear different, ethnic or exotic in relationship to countries like the United States &#8212; and how, in some cases, we&#8217;ve taken those exoticisms and worn them proudly, as if we had some agency in creating them.</p><p>It&#8217;s also how we&#8217;ve gathered and celebrated notions that are uniquely Latino, but can&#8217;t fully understand: the complicated relationship with our colonial past, the amalgamation of Afro-influences into our culture while still denying racism, the ingredients that have made our foods richer and more unique, the family-centric celebrations of quincea&#241;eras and matrimonios, and the sound of salsa as the sound of <em>el barrio</em>.</p><p>Most of all, she questioned why Karol G wasn&#8217;t using her music to ask smarter questions and tell more narratives, rather than reducing women to old-age stereotypes that haunt us.</p><h1><strong>What&#8217;s this got to do with food?</strong></h1><p>All week, I couldn&#8217;t stop thinking about how this reflects on my work and what being Latina means to me, both while listening to the episode and rewatching Karol G&#8217;s show. I might not be a musician, but I am also actively producing, reproducing, and talking about my own culture. <em>(Sometimes, I really do wonder why I can&#8217;t just sit and enjoy something)</em></p><p>And so I asked myself:</p><p>What exactly am I reproducing when and if I only cook arepas for my non-Venezuelan friends? Am I, like Karol, perpetuating a simplistic stereotype of my culture?</p><p>Am I <em>really</em> going further to showcase what my culture&#8217;s foodways encompass?</p><p>Taking a step back, I saw that some efforts to showcase Venezuelan foods have focused on what&#8217;s digestible, palatable, and easier for other cultures to accept and even adapt to. </p><p>Teque&#241;os are often compared to mozzarella sticks, even though they&#8217;re entirely different. Sometimes, they&#8217;ve been misrepresented in cookbooks by other non-Latino authors who claim to know how they&#8217;re made, to the point of including a recipe in a cookbook.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b5d1bb15-20f5-4dfe-8647-8ecf4a8b77bd_868x798.webp&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;In 2024, I ran into this representation of a teque&#241;o in a cookbook authored by a half-Honduran author, who also wrote about arepas, empanadas and other Venezuelan foods in the worst way possible.&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b5d1bb15-20f5-4dfe-8647-8ecf4a8b77bd_868x798.webp&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Arepas made with precooked corn flour rely heavily on fillings to market themselves rather than highlighting the quality of the corn itself, which connects them to tacos, gorditas, pupusas, and other corn-based preparations found across the Americas.</p><p>I constantly battle with the thought that I should be grateful these foods are being exported and cherished, just as I should be happy a woman is headlining one of the biggest festivals in the world.</p><p>In reality, I&#8217;m frustrated that culture is being reduced to ingredients as common as masa and cheese, as if that&#8217;s the extent of Venezuelan food culture, and that women are just pieces of meat to be advertised.</p><h1>Digestibility is its own kind of erasure</h1><p>I understood this viscerally the day I visited Alma Cocina Latina in Baltimore and ordered a Venezuelan tarkar&#237; de pato, a duck stew spiced with curry, peppers, and tamarind. It was warm and earthy in a way that felt immediately familiar, but somehow, non-Venezuelan.</p><p>When chef H&#233;ctor Romero explained that this dish comes from the eastern region of Venezuela, right next to Trinidad and Tobago, something clicked. Curry-like flavors in Venezuelan food aren&#8217;t borrowed or accidental.</p><p>Venezuela is the country where curries were incorporated from the Antilles and Guyana, where rotis and doubles are consumed alongside the music of El Callao carnivals. It&#8217;s the country where coconut meets goat in a stew in Coro, and plantain and stingray make pastel de chucho. The place where Portuguese own bakeries, Spaniards have some of the best <em>tascas</em> outside of Spain, and Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian people who have arrived in waves feel as Venezuelan as someone whose family has been in the country for centuries.</p><p>The same complicated mishmash that Vanessa spoke about in the podcast episode is present in Latin American food, and the more we study and talk about it (whatever your food is), instead of making it friendlier for others to understand, the more we can continue to advocate for a more realistic view of it, both internally and externally.</p><p><strong>And so, while I can be happy that both Karol G and arepas are taking a global stage, I hope they can open a door rather than become the final word on what it means to be from a certain region or country. </strong></p><p>And while I battle over whether to hold the Venezuelan flag exclusively to talk about food, I continue to write about aj&#237;es dulces and pitch articles on the unseen labor of Venezuelan women building empires on sweets. Part of my mission is to expand people&#8217;s understanding of Venezuelan foodways, despite how great teque&#241;os and arepas can be.</p><p>And as a side note: Latinas and our foods are SO much more than tetas y nalgas. In case you didn&#8217;t know, you do.</p><p>Buen provecho</p><p>Gaby</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Vivir, Comer y Contar  is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Brain Runs Like an F1 Car. My Business is Trying to Keep Up.]]></title><description><![CDATA[On building a career that doesn't exist yet, and understanding my brain in the process]]></description><link>https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/p/my-brain-runs-like-an-f1-car-my-business</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/p/my-brain-runs-like-an-f1-car-my-business</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabriela Montes de Oca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:08:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8V5F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3859bda4-e99d-4f53-a7cb-72f2dfb1cec1_736x922.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m currently in the middle of the movie where the main character has to face her biggest fears.</p><p>For many years, I thought the way my brain operated was one of my biggest strengths. I was always lauded as the smart kid in class, won spelling bee contests, and even received an award that said &#8220;Most likely to run the world&#8221; in a 2007 summer camp.</p><p>As I started pivoting from a corporate career into the business world, I was holding on to job security to fund my &#8220;side projects&#8221;: pitching the articles I wanted to write, recording and editing my documentaries, creating this Substack, and organizing events.</p><p>For many years, I took pride in juggling it all: a corporate career where I was applauded, a new relationship, and the many, many tentacles of my side projects, which people seemed to love and admire.</p><p>I have bragged about my multitasking abilities and my energy to get it all done. I became used to constantly thinking about (approximately) one million things at once, as I was doing another million, and somehow winging them all.</p><p>On the outside, everything seemed like I had my shit together. More than together, I have been thriving.</p><p>But in August 2025, I officially entered formal unemployment and began building a career that didn&#8217;t yet exist. Without the 9-to-5 schedule, the office setting, the clear priorities, and the constant feedback from others. And, of course, without the &#8220;quince y &#250;ltimo&#8221; &#8212; AKA the money that arrived in my bank account diligently every two weeks.</p><p>What started as the perfect opportunity to really explore my next move, dedicate more time to those &#8220;side projects,&#8221; and build a business with my knowledge from my previous corporate life has been a reckoning of who I really am and how I work.</p><p>It has also been discouraging, sad, and most of all, lonely at times.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h1><strong>Enter: Understanding my brain, for real this time.</strong></h1><p>Since I moved to the United States in 2018, I have been therapy&#8217;s biggest fan. I love it; it has changed me for the better and given me all the resources possible to navigate many, many challenges in my life. I see my therapist regularly, and recommend the experience to anyone willing to try giving it a chance.</p><p>But therapy and self-awareness can only go so far, or so I have begun to understand.</p><p>On the first day of my transition, right after my last day at my last job, I already had many plans for what I wanted to achieve and how I wanted to dedicate my time. As the months went by, I began to notice resistance as a pattern.</p><p>Resistance to do the things I needed to do, followed by impulses to do other, unrelated, and not really important tasks. As usual, I trusted that I would always finish things, no matter how or when. I got a part-time job right away &#8212; one that doesn&#8217;t have an office or even a schedule.</p><p>Initially, I thought this was my perfect setting. Great, even. Getting a job in the industry I&#8217;ve worked so hard to break into, two months after ending my previous role, and having more time to do the things I&#8217;ve actually wanted to do.</p><p>In reality, it has been the biggest challenge my brain has had to face.</p><p>Every day, my internal dialogue looks like a grown-up telling a kid to sit down, focus, and please, please, get all the important tasks done &#8212; while said kid is only thinking about the fun thing to do, or whistling a salsa song in her mind. I do get things done, especially in my formal role, because responsibility is one of my biggest values, but the process of doing so alongside my other passions is another story.</p><p>The predictable structure transformed into my current state. I started moving in spirals, in somersaults, on paths that let me explore, with distractions that became fake new priorities. My days don&#8217;t have a specific beginning or end, and my hardest battle is always a big question: Where do I start? What exactly will make me rich?</p><p>Some days, I cave into the task I&#8217;m avoiding the most. Others, I dedicate endless energy to the ones that seem menial or don&#8217;t even have anything to do with real work &#8212; such as mopping my floor or organizing the bathroom cabinet.</p><p>Other days, my deep-focus sessions end up becoming a jump down a rabbit hole of side quests, unexpected e-mails, a pending class I still have to take since 2023, and tasks that release so much dopamine that, for a moment, make me think they&#8217;re actually important.  </p><p>My husband has compared me to Donny Thornberry, and I think that&#8217;s more than fitting. He&#8217;s also the calmest person in the world and the one who helped me realize I needed a different type of help.</p><p><em>(I am, for the sake of length, omitting talking about the countless objects I have broken or lost because of my carelessness, and that have led him to beg me to get help and be more present.)</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pssl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f0f14bf-8400-4bed-bf75-7d5a290c2958_702x713.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pssl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f0f14bf-8400-4bed-bf75-7d5a290c2958_702x713.webp 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>For so long, I have been hiding behind the &#8220;My brain just works like that, so I need to follow all the impulses and see how the day goes.&#8221;</p><p>I&#8217;ve built a life that works, so why change it now? </p><p>I&#8217;m proud of who I am, so why change <em>at all</em>?</p><p>For so long, this ability to juggle it all, be creative, and look energized and happy, has been the source of all the compliments I&#8217;ve received in my life.</p><p>It&#8217;s the same impulse that tricks me into believing that, if I don&#8217;t do exactly what it asks of me, then it will not happen, I will forget it, and my once-in-a-lifetime million-dollar idea will vanish.</p><p>It&#8217;s the impulse that comes from a brain that&#8217;s been trained to think about 1,000 things at once, and act with a sense of urgency as if the world were ending in 0.5 seconds &#8212; and God forbid I don&#8217;t achieve all I want to achieve.</p><p>It&#8217;s the energy and impulse that have led me to pitch magazine editors, influencers, and even celebrities with great ideas for collaboration, or sell them on why I&#8217;m the perfect candidate for a story or a problem they don&#8217;t yet know they have. </p><p>Or create wonderful articles, produce documentaries, and also have a functioning life outside of it all. </p><p>It&#8217;s also the brain that sends those same editors unfinished emails or publishes something that&#8217;s not yet done because I didn&#8217;t really check before I hit send.</p><h2>Yin and yang.</h2><p>On some days, like today, my body is buzzing with stress from my endless to-do list, but I am also writing this article because I haven&#8217;t posted on my Substack in almost two weeks.</p><p>Being honest, I realize I&#8217;m angry.</p><p>I&#8217;m angry because the way I&#8217;ve been operating and the identity I worked so hard to build is not working anymore. </p><p>I&#8217;m angry at myself for not realizing sooner that my brain going at the speed of an F1 car with Lewis Hamilton at the wheel was never sustainable. I&#8217;m angry that I didn&#8217;t seek better tools before. And somewhere in the back of my racing mind, a voice keeps telling me there&#8217;s lost time in not knowing &#8212; time I can&#8217;t get back.</p><p>I&#8217;m trying not to sit with that anger for too long. Not because it isn&#8217;t valid, but because anger that stays still keeps you inert. I want to use it as fuel to keep digging, and finally find the gold inside of me, and for my business. I also don&#8217;t want to hide behind a diagnosis. I&#8217;m waiting to get from this new therapist I&#8217;m seeing. My brain seeks answers so we can keep moving at our F1 car speed.</p><p>But instead, right now, I&#8217;m sitting with a pit in my stomach and an endless to-do list. But also, somehow, a little more at ease for having put this on paper.</p><p>I&#8217;ve also realized I don&#8217;t want to stay still. I am a creative soul with an inexplicable amount of energy. I&#8217;m someone who wants to be a business owner, a cookbook author, a speaker, a traveler, a tour organizer, a mango lover, a dog mom, and God knows what other desires that will come in my way. As I read recently, I&#8217;m a garden of many flowers. But not everything needs to happen at the same time. </p><p>After I hit send, I&#8217;ll go back to my responsibilities. And day after day, I&#8217;ll try a little better to discern my priorities, keep moving with imperfect action, cultivate certainty, and feel my feelings honestly.</p><p>That&#8217;s enough for today.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8V5F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3859bda4-e99d-4f53-a7cb-72f2dfb1cec1_736x922.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8V5F!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3859bda4-e99d-4f53-a7cb-72f2dfb1cec1_736x922.jpeg 424w, 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8j3w!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9b73b45-4ed5-43d4-ae1c-1adc9995f994_1200x726.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bienvenidos de nuevo a mi mesa compartida.</p><p>Antes de compartirles mi carta de hoy, quiero invitarles a leer mi nuevo art&#237;culo, publicado en Anchoa, &#8220;<a href="https://www.anchoamagazine.com/paid-articles/aji-dulce-el-sabor-del-hogar-que-se-niega-a-desaparecer">Aj&#237; dulce: el sabor del hogar que se niega a desaparecer</a>&#8221;, un reportaje que realic&#233; este a&#241;o a ra&#237;z de mis visitas a Alma Cocina Latina y el descubrimiento de varias iniciativas en el Noreste de Estados Unidos para preservar el aj&#237; dulce. </p><p> Me encantar&#237;a que me dieran sus comentarios.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Si te apasiona c&#243;mo la comida conecta culturas, cuenta historias y preserva memorias, te invito a formar parte de esta comunidad. Suscr&#237;bete y descubre relatos, sabores y voces que merecen ser contados. Aqu&#237; exploramos la evoluci&#243;n de la gastronom&#237;a como puente entre culturas e identidades.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Escribe tu correo electr&#243;nico..." tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Suscribirse"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Vivir, Comer y Contar se tomar&#225; un break hasta enero, porque el formato cambiar&#225; el a&#241;o que viene. Pero antes, no quer&#237;a dejar de agradecerles por estar aqu&#237; a los ciento veinte de ustedes que, semanalmente, me reciben en sus correos. No tomo esto por sentado y espero verlos el pr&#243;ximo a&#241;o. </p><p>Ahora s&#237;, a lo que vinimos:</p><h1><strong>La locura invisible</strong></h1><p>El lunes complet&#233; mi postulaci&#243;n a la beca Michael Jacobs de periodismo de viaje, una oportunidad de financiamiento para escribir un libro, uno de mis sue&#241;os m&#225;s grandes.</p><p>Al empezar la aplicaci&#243;n, ya ten&#237;a todos los materiales que necesitaba, pero al entrar al portal, algo m&#225;s me rob&#243; la atenci&#243;n.</p><p>Justo debajo del enlace de postulaci&#243;n a los premios de 2026, hab&#237;a una postulaci&#243;n abierta de 2024. Es decir, hace dos a&#241;os mi yo del pasado intent&#243; enviar una postulaci&#243;n, pero qued&#243; en el tintero y no la envi&#233;.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d7c03851-13b8-4c52-b133-82f5a6fbdaf0_2846x588.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d7c03851-13b8-4c52-b133-82f5a6fbdaf0_2846x588.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Honestamente, no recuerdo qu&#233; pudo haber pasado en ese momento: si fueron las dudas o la falta de confianza en mi trabajo.</p><p>Tal vez hab&#237;a un requisito de estar publicada en alg&#250;n sitio, lo cual no ten&#237;a.</p><p>Tal vez me dije a m&#237; misma que luego completar&#237;a la postulaci&#243;n y ese &#8220;luego&#8221; nunca lleg&#243;.</p><p>Lo cierto es que nunca le di a enviar y eso se qued&#243; ah&#237;, sin abrir posibilidades, sin poner nada en movimiento, sin siquiera atreverme.</p><p>Pero, lejos de haber desaparecido, me miraba fijamente a los ojos mientras completaba la otra aplicaci&#243;n.</p><p>No lo vi como un recordatorio (que no sab&#237;a que estaba ah&#237;) de que hab&#237;a fallado hace dos a&#241;os, sino de algo m&#225;s. </p><p>Naturalmente, soy una persona con baj&#237;simos niveles de paciencia. En proporci&#243;n, mi impulsividad influye en muchas &#225;reas de mi vida, tanto para bien como para mal. </p><p>Quiero que las cosas ocurran ya, ya, ya. Y en paralelo, tengo que trabajar en el autoconvencimiento de que, si no est&#225;n ocurriendo en este preciso momento, no van a pasar del todo. </p><p>Pero ver esa aplicaci&#243;n incompleta, de la cual no me acordaba, al tiempo que llenaba esta nueva, se sinti&#243; como un recordatorio de que llevo m&#225;s de dos a&#241;os creando algo desconocido y, para lo cual, no tengo referentes. </p><p>Y que todo el proceso requiere que practique y desarrolle una paciencia que no tengo. </p><p>En dos a&#241;os, no pens&#233; en esa aplicaci&#243;n ni en las muchas otras que probablemente quedaron sin mandar ni respuesta. </p><p>En estos dos a&#241;os, manteni&#233;ndome en movimiento, hubo algo que me movi&#243;. Un pensamiento, una certeza, y una pregunta:</p><p>&#191;Y si me preparo para que todo salga mejor de lo que imagino?</p><p>El lunes no solo envi&#233; la postulaci&#243;n con much&#237;sima confianza, sino tambi&#233;n con tres pruebas de que soy autora publicada. Ayer envi&#233; dos m&#225;s para los premios James Beard y estoy en proceso de postular a una beca para un curso de escritura gastron&#243;mica con referentes de la talla del New York Times y autoras publicadas. </p><p>Tal vez no me den el financiamiento del libro este a&#241;o, o ninguno de los premios, pero tan solo hacer el ejercicio de mandarme (como dir&#237;an los argentinos) y poner mi nombre para consideraci&#243;n ya es suficiente. </p><p>Hace dos a&#241;os, ni siquiera lo ve&#237;a posible. </p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/23c10b69-da84-44b3-a671-85b930364b3d_1152x772.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/23c10b69-da84-44b3-a671-85b930364b3d_1152x772.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Pero no todo ha sido color de rosa.</p><p>Mandarse tambi&#233;n implica mandarse cagadas.</p><p>Me qued&#233; sin un trabajo que, aunque no disfrutaba, me daba una estabilidad financiera para poder pagar proyectos que me permiten seguir creando contenido de alt&#237;sima calidad. </p><p>He mandado correos en los que me postulo a escribir historias para medios grandes como Vogue M&#233;xico e Eater.</p><p>Sin recibir respuesta.</p><div 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Pero luego recuerdo que tambi&#233;n tengo que comer y pagar las cuentas, porque si algo tiene su amiga, son gustos caros. </p><p>Pero en estos dos a&#241;os, tambi&#233;n me he vuelto completamente loca, desquiciada incluso. </p><p>Lo suficiente como para creer que mi trabajo vale much&#237;simo m&#225;s que los rechazos, los ghosteos e incluso la pena de presentarme una y otra vez ante gente que no conozco y proponerles ideas que a m&#237; me parecen fant&#225;sticas y que siento que nadie est&#225; cubriendo.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8j3w!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9b73b45-4ed5-43d4-ae1c-1adc9995f994_1200x726.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8j3w!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9b73b45-4ed5-43d4-ae1c-1adc9995f994_1200x726.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8j3w!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9b73b45-4ed5-43d4-ae1c-1adc9995f994_1200x726.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8j3w!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9b73b45-4ed5-43d4-ae1c-1adc9995f994_1200x726.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8j3w!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9b73b45-4ed5-43d4-ae1c-1adc9995f994_1200x726.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8j3w!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe9b73b45-4ed5-43d4-ae1c-1adc9995f994_1200x726.png" width="1200" height="726" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e9b73b45-4ed5-43d4-ae1c-1adc9995f994_1200x726.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:726,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;AwardsWatch - 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Sola, en un parque, con un altavoz que suena muy alto, esperando que alguien lo escuche.</p><p>En resumen, han sido (m&#225;s de) dos a&#241;os de darle valor a mi trabajo inventado, hablar de ello sin cesar, nominarlo a una serie de premios y seguir intent&#225;ndolo. Aunque haya gente m&#225;s preparada que yo, ellos no tienen ni mi historia ni las historias de ellas, ni yo las de ellos.</p><p>Es hacer todas las cosas que no se pueden publicar, que no siempre se muestran ni generan tanto engagement como un video de aj&#237; dulce, y que dan un cringe m&#225;ximo porque quedas como &#8220;la intensa&#8221;.</p><p>Es querer lanzar algo ya, pero tener que esperar a que el clima mejore para usar un venue, porque no tienes plata para pagar el alquiler de un local cerrado (<em>Benditas estaciones</em>)</p><p>Es hacer un video con tu iPhone y cero c&#225;maras, luces o equipo, porque no te alcanza para pagar una producci&#243;n audiovisual, pero no quieres esperar m&#225;s tiempo para hacer algo. </p><p>Es mantener la creatividad en movimiento para transformar una visita a un restaurante en un video, en una historia m&#225;s grande y en una postulaci&#243;n a los premios de la gastronom&#237;a.</p><p>Y en el medio, darte el permiso de &#8220;una lloradita y seguirle&#8221;.</p><p>Porque construir un camino desconocido y sin gu&#237;a a veces se siente bastante oscuro, financieramente inestable y solitario.</p><p>Eso tambi&#233;n forma parte de todo lo que no se ve, pero ocupa mis d&#237;as.</p><p>Y mientras espero respuestas, sigo creando y escribiendo por aqu&#237;, porque el camino se hace as&#237;: balanceando una mezcla rara de paciencia, delirio y movimiento.</p><p>Mi locura es invisible, pero ver esa postulaci&#243;n de hace dos a&#241;os me hace ver que tampoco tanto, y que tiene tiempo cocin&#225;ndose a fuego lento.  Despu&#233;s de todo, creo que algo de paciencia he desarrollado, &#191;o no?.</p><p>Y t&#250;, <strong>&#191;qu&#233; has hecho que nadie ve, pero que te est&#225; llevando a alg&#250;n lugar?</strong></p><p>Buen provecho</p><p>Gaby</p><h3><strong>La Sobremesa</strong></h3><p>Si quieres terminar el a&#241;o leyendo alg&#250;n libro que te atrape, te recomiendo estos tres:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFVq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9769292c-6610-4673-9f75-7f1b2dbb5423_1024x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFVq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9769292c-6610-4673-9f75-7f1b2dbb5423_1024x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFVq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9769292c-6610-4673-9f75-7f1b2dbb5423_1024x1024.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFVq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9769292c-6610-4673-9f75-7f1b2dbb5423_1024x1024.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFVq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9769292c-6610-4673-9f75-7f1b2dbb5423_1024x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFVq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9769292c-6610-4673-9f75-7f1b2dbb5423_1024x1024.png" width="326" height="326" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9769292c-6610-4673-9f75-7f1b2dbb5423_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1024,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:326,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFVq!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9769292c-6610-4673-9f75-7f1b2dbb5423_1024x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFVq!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9769292c-6610-4673-9f75-7f1b2dbb5423_1024x1024.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFVq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9769292c-6610-4673-9f75-7f1b2dbb5423_1024x1024.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFVq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9769292c-6610-4673-9f75-7f1b2dbb5423_1024x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The Mango Tree: Fruta, Florida y Crimen - Una historia que relata c&#243;mo la madre de la autora le dispar&#243; a una persona por meterse con su &#225;rbol de mango. Suena loco. Lo es. Pero tambi&#233;n es una memoria bell&#237;sima sobre migraci&#243;n, empat&#237;a familiar, arraigo a lo que se qued&#243; en un lugar lejos de nuestra &#8220;ahora casa&#8221; y vulnerabilidad al m&#225;ximo. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3rSu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09466a15-0f32-4fd5-bb73-0e36235323ec_348x522.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3rSu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09466a15-0f32-4fd5-bb73-0e36235323ec_348x522.jpeg 424w, 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Una memoria escrita a trav&#233;s de met&#225;foras gastron&#243;micas y de una que otra receta filipina, de historia de migraci&#243;n y colonialismo, y de una conversaci&#243;n sobre la empat&#237;a. Me cost&#243;, pero me encant&#243;. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Si algo de lo que le&#237;ste te reson&#243; en tu panza, considera suscribirte de forma paga para financiar la expansi&#243;n de este proyecto, que busca visibilizar narrativas en formatos escrito y de video en espa&#241;ol.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Escribe tu correo electr&#243;nico..." tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Suscribirse"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fuera de Carta 002: No se trata de ser Christopher Nolan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Detr&#225;s y frente a las c&#225;maras, literal.]]></description><link>https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/p/fuera-de-carta-002-no-se-trata-de</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/p/fuera-de-carta-002-no-se-trata-de</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabriela Montes de Oca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:01:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IqC9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadc53a68-55f4-4e56-b741-77412651e394_1206x687.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Esta es una carta mucho m&#225;s personal. Aqu&#237; no hay rese&#241;as, recomendaciones ni siquiera consejos. </p><p>Hoy les cuento el detr&#225;s de c&#225;mara de las decisiones que estoy tomando para hacer de este hobby un negocio rentable y construir una marca alrededor de las historias de negocios gastron&#243;micos que me mueven.</p><p>Si llegaste hace poco, en <a href="https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/p/me-gane-un-concurso-de-tamales-e">esta carta</a> te cuento un poco m&#225;s sobre c&#243;mo empez&#243; todo. </p><p><strong>Recuerda que si quieres contribuir a que estos documentales se sigan produciendo, puedes ser miembro de la suscripci&#243;n paga y tener acceso a estas cartas, a mis recomendaciones exclusivas y el detr&#225;s de c&#225;mara de la producci&#243;n.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/subscribe?coupon=8d233ff4&amp;utm_content=175159700&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Obt&#233;n 20% off forever&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/subscribe?coupon=8d233ff4&amp;utm_content=175159700"><span>Obt&#233;n 20% off forever</span></a></p><p>Recuerdo v&#237;vidamente c&#243;mo en una &#233;poca de mi vida devoraba las pel&#237;culas de directores requeteconocidos y prestigiosos en el mundo del cine (y obvio me cre&#237;a la m&#225;s cool en el proceso).</p><p>Pero todo eso cambi&#243; un d&#237;a en 2012, al salir de mi cine de confianza en Palermo, Buenos Aires.</p><p>Hab&#237;a ido a ver The Dark Knight Rises, el cierre de la trilog&#237;a m&#225;s importante de Christopher Nolan.</p><p>En vez de disfrutar por completo la pel&#237;cula, sal&#237; anonada por el nivel de producci&#243;n y talento de un director como &#233;l. Dentro de m&#237;, solo existi&#243; una certeza a partir de ese d&#237;a: <em>&#8220;Nunca voy a poder llegar a ser tan incre&#237;ble como este hombre. Entonces, &#191;para qu&#233; intentarlo?&#8221;</em></p><p>Apenas un a&#241;o despu&#233;s de haber empezado la universidad so&#241;ando con ser directora de cine, ese sue&#241;o se me desmoron&#243;. Sin mucho luto ni sufrimiento, cambi&#233; de camino, me especialic&#233; en publicidad y me sumerg&#237; en la vida corporativa. </p><p>El cine y la producci&#243;n audiovisual quedaron guardados en alg&#250;n caj&#243;n de mi inconsciente.</p><p>Pero hace casi dos a&#241;os, cuando empec&#233; a coquetear con la idea de hacer contenido en video sobre las historias de las personas detr&#225;s de los restaurantes, algo en m&#237; se volvi&#243; a activar.</p><p>No, no fue el sue&#241;o de ser la pr&#243;xima Christopher Nolan.</p><p>Pero s&#237; estoy descubriendo que puedo ser una mejor directora: de mi empresa, de mis proyectos y de lo que grabo.</p><h1>&#191;Y c&#243;mo se come eso?</h1><p>El a&#241;o pasado produje tres documentales que me permitieron ponerme manos a la obra, mandando DMs como alguien salido de la nada, y contar historias que me tocaron profundamente en formato audiovisual.</p><p>Pero este a&#241;o, quiero voltearlo todo de nuevo. Y en este proceso, algo importante cambi&#243;.</p><div class="paywall-jump" data-component-name="PaywallToDOM"></div><p>Dej&#233; de ver esto como un hobby.</p><p>Hoy lo veo como un oficio. Como un trabajo serio que merece tiempo, inversi&#243;n, cuidado y tambi&#233;n remuneraci&#243;n.</p><h1>&#191;C&#243;mo se come eso?</h1><p>Desde que tuve este cambio de mindset a principio de a&#241;o, la gran parte que he invertido</p><ul><li><p>Conversar con amigos directores para absorber sus procesos. Entender que todo gran documental lleva much&#237;sima planificaci&#243;n y c&#243;mo puedo aprender de ellos para aplicarlo a mis proyectos.<br></p></li><li><p>Crear decks con un concepto claro antes de grabar y seleccionar historias bajo ese lente, en vez de contar historias que no tienen nada que ver entre s&#237;. Este ha sido un gran <em>game changer.</em><br></p></li><li><p>Elegir las historias con m&#225;s cuidado, entendiendo qu&#233; hay detr&#225;s de cada plato, estableciendo y solidificando relaciones con los due&#241;os de restaurantes</p><p></p></li><li><p>Empezar a aparecer en c&#225;mara como host y curadora de estas narrativas, porque quiero que las marcas y mi audiencia me vean como esa figura de autoridad en la industria. </p></li></ul><p>Y mientras todo esto pasa, por supuesto que no he dejado de mandar e-mails, mensajes y DMs como loca desquiciada, incluso a las personas que no conozco. Porque si algo caracteriza a los chefs y due&#241;os de negocios gastron&#243;micos, es que su tiempo es bastante limitado, y a veces un email se puede perder entre tanta cosa. </p><p>Y lo otro: empezar a creerme que hay gente all&#225; afuera dispuesta a pagarme por lo que hago, lo cual es muy loco, pero tambi&#233;n muy posible.</p><h2><strong>En este momento estoy trabajando en dos documentales muy distintos:</strong></h2><p>Uno, sobre una familia que construy&#243; su &#233;xito a partir de la autenticidad y la memoria de su abuela de 89 a&#241;os, quien cocinaba y cocina los platos que hoy dan vida a su restaurante. Abajo les dejo algunas fotos del primer d&#237;a de grabaci&#243;n. Ese video ser&#225; mi prueba de concepto para posibles clientes en un futuro cercano.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/adc53a68-55f4-4e56-b741-77412651e394_1206x687.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c50e2ca3-ca44-4740-a66a-c0b7636ac018_2138x1206.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f99acc05-37de-4d6d-9887-1a7bd2cc65e1_1988x1198.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2c80f82a-044a-425a-8558-a02853a98a3a_1199x666.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Grabaci&#243;n en el jard&#237;n de Mounirva&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d789234c-63ac-4193-9ad1-cda44298a716_1456x1456.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>El otro es un piloto que estoy financiando con mis propios recursos, pag&#225;ndole a un director de fotograf&#237;a para que quede lo m&#225;s hermoso posible. Esto lo hago para present&#225;rselo a una marca con la que sue&#241;o colaborar. Ayer comenc&#233; el scouting y no podr&#237;a estar m&#225;s emocionada</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a33175c4-daa0-475d-937d-cc1aea561fdb_4032x2268.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2dbf1075-9fba-4921-8d98-e1b9a0e9e296_5712x3213.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Probando encuadres de entrevistas y meti&#233;ndome en la cocina, como siempre&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ade03173-24ff-4dab-a937-3b8dc5affbe2_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p><strong>En ambos estoy exigi&#233;ndome m&#225;s de lo que me hubiera imaginado.</strong></p><p>Y s&#237;: me equivoco, aprendo, ajusto. </p><p>Nadie me ense&#241;&#243; a hacer esto. Lo estoy aprendiendo sola, en carne propia. Pero, por suerte, existe el internet y los amigos dispuestos a ayudarme. </p><p>Y precisamente por eso, me siento m&#225;s comprometida que nunca con mi craft y con seguir mejorando cada d&#237;a.</p><h1><strong>La Sobremesa</strong></h1><p>En el primer d&#237;a de grabaci&#243;n de ese primer documental, obvio, ten&#237;a que haber comida. La abuela, que es protagonista de este primer video, me invit&#243; a desayunar con su familia, prepar&#243; pan casero e incluso prob&#233; el labneh m&#225;s rico que he comido en mi vida.</p><p>Cada vez que intentaba grabar algo, ella se deten&#237;a y me recordaba que comiera. Me gust&#243; ese recordatorio, porque al final, la comida es un momento para detenerse y compartir, especialmente con personas que nos abren las puertas de su casa o de su restaurante con poca frecuencia.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/152fff80-6d6e-419b-b9d0-b955def121d2_2130x1194.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/47fb485d-c956-42f5-88fd-a13402275c79_1308x723.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ad44b6bd-3ce8-4472-a50a-85e3a589450e_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Buen provecho,</p><p>Gaby</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introducing: Fuera de carta (001)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Construyendo en p&#250;blico]]></description><link>https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/p/introducing-fuera-de-carta-001</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/p/introducing-fuera-de-carta-001</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabriela Montes de Oca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:59:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ueTy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9dc7b00b-6534-4a6b-9c09-d479bb915f9d_2268x4032.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Este no es un correo cualquiera. Es un recordatorio de por qu&#233; sigo creando, incluso cuando parece una locura hacerlo.</strong></p><p>Este contenido merece su propio espacio, que ahora se llamar&#225; &#8220;Fuera de carta&#8221;. As&#237;, cada vez que recibas uno de estos correos, te contar&#233; de mis andanzas construyendo un negocio gastron&#243;mico.</p><p>Ahora s&#237;, a lo que vinimos.</p><p>Hace dos semanas, la &#250;ltima vez que nos le&#237;mos, te cont&#233; sobre c&#243;mo hab&#237;a dejado el mundo corporativo y toda la emoci&#243;n que ten&#237;a por crear una nueva serie de documentales y al inicio de una nueva idea de carrera.</p><p>Posiblemente, esperar&#237;as que te contara c&#243;mo todo est&#225; saliendo idealmente, con muchas confirmaciones de negocios gastron&#243;micos y al menos una forma de convertir este negocio en uno millonario.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscr&#237;bete ahora&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://vivircomercontar.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Suscr&#237;bete ahora</span></a></p><p>Pero la realidad no podr&#237;a estar m&#225;s lejos de eso.</p><p>Hace unos d&#237;as, en plenas vacaciones, recib&#237; una noticia que me cay&#243; como un yunque en el est&#243;mago. Hab&#237;a conseguido algo que llevaba tiempo buscando: moderar la presentaci&#243;n de un libro de una autora en mi librer&#237;a favorita de Washington D.C. Este iba a ser un evento peque&#241;o, pero con el potencial de abrir muchas puertas como un domin&#243;.</p><p>Pero debido a todas las noticias, el evento se cancel&#243; sin fecha cierta de reprogramaci&#243;n.</p><p>Aunque entend&#237; la decisi&#243;n, la duda me golpe&#243;:</p><p><em>&#191;Deber&#237;a yo tambi&#233;n bajar el perfil y dejar de crear, por mi propia seguridad?</em></p><p><em>&#191;Vale la pena seguir hablando de lo que me apasiona si eso puede ponerme en riesgo?</em></p><p>Por un instante, pens&#233; en dejarlo todo. Si no puedo crear sobre lo que me mueve, &#191;cu&#225;l es el punto?</p><p>En un momento me descubr&#237; pensando en actualizar mi curr&#237;culum. Buscar trabajos que no quiero. Fingir que nada pas&#243;.</p><p>Me dio rabia.</p><p>No era justo.</p><p>Pero ese instante pas&#243;. Y entend&#237; que mi tarea no es simplemente hacer lo que es f&#225;cil, sino lo que realmente me acerca m&#225;s a lo que quiero contar.</p><p>Lo que yo hago no es simplemente sumar otro video a YouTube o hacer un video con mis amigos chefs porque ya los conozco.</p><p>Entonces, record&#233; qui&#233;n soy: la persona de la que mi mam&#225; siempre se quej&#243; y se queja todos los d&#237;as dici&#233;ndome &#8220;T&#250; s&#237; eres terca, muchachita&#8221;</p><p>La que cree en apoyar a una industria local que lucha por sobrevivir en una ciudad en la que se espera que cierren el 40% de los negocios gastron&#243;micos a finales de a&#241;o.</p><p>La que cocina historias que nunca hab&#237;an tenido espacio <strong>en espa&#241;ol</strong>.</p><p>Es descubrir historias nuevas, tocar puertas que antes no abr&#237; y darles espacio a nuevos personajes.</p><p>Cuando volv&#237; a todas esas verdades, entend&#237; que no necesito un plan perfecto para seguir adelante. Solo necesito no apagar la chispa.</p><h3><strong>Entonces, &#191;qu&#233; estoy haciendo exactamente?</strong></h3><p>Despu&#233;s de dejar el modo v&#237;ctima, empec&#233; a tocar nuevas puertas.</p><p>Busqu&#233; n&#250;meros de tel&#233;fono de negocios que hab&#237;a visitado, en los que no tengo ning&#250;n contacto.</p><p>Descubr&#237;, gracias a un amigo, que puedo hacer un episodio piloto y buscar formas de monetizarlo, para as&#237; tener m&#225;s recursos de producci&#243;n de una serie con mejor calidad que la anterior.</p><p>Compr&#233; un set de luces para comenzar a practicar salir m&#225;s en c&#225;mara.</p><p>Tal vez algunas historias tarden m&#225;s que otras en salir de la cocina, pero llegar&#225;n a sus comensales en su debido tiempo. Eso es una promesa que me hice y que les hice.</p><p>Y a ti, que me lees, quiz&#225;s tambi&#233;n te ha pasado sentir que tu visi&#243;n va a tener que esperar. Yo lo sent&#237;.</p><p>Toca practicar la paciencia, hacer pivot las veces que sea necesario y seguir d&#225;ndole.</p><p>Buen provecho,</p><p>Gaby</p><h1><strong>La Sobremesa</strong></h1><h3>&#127860; Una recomendaci&#243;n gastron&#243;mica:</h3><p>La semana pasada visit&#233; Hallandale Beach, Florida, y entre los lugares que visit&#233;, encontr&#233; Mois&#233;s Bakery, una panader&#237;a venezolana. Como buena herencia cultural de mi pa&#237;s, sus due&#241;os son portugueses y espa&#241;oles, y todo, absolutamente todo, me supo a casa. </p><p>M&#225;s all&#225; del sabor, al probar el pan dulce, me teletransport&#233; a mis domingos en Venezuela, en los que acompa&#241;aba a mi pap&#225; a buscar su peri&#243;dico y yo siempre escog&#237;a un pan dulce perfecto. A&#241;os despu&#233;s, estudiando gastronom&#237;a, descubrir&#237;a que ese pan dulce de mis amores realmente es un pan brioche.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9dc7b00b-6534-4a6b-9c09-d479bb915f9d_2268x4032.heic&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UY-Y!,w_200,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2555b2ed-b8b9-4ae7-96c4-5eba170e7bfb_2268x4032.heic&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0508aa13-2717-4420-88dc-17bb631a93e8_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h3>&#128161; Un recurso</h3><p>Un amigo me present&#243; <a href="https://shotdeck.com/welcome/home">ShotDeck</a>, una p&#225;gina brutal que tiene diferentes tomas y planos que se han utilizado en pel&#237;culas, comerciales y series que me han ayudado a afinar mi ojo cinematogr&#225;fico. Si tienes un proyecto audiovisual, lo recomiendo ampliamente.</p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>