Platanos Are Love

A delicious picture book about the ways plantains shape Latinx culture, community, and family, told through a young girl’s experiences in the kitchen with her abuela. Abuela says, platanos 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 mangu, and sizzle of the maduros, a little girl learns that platanos are her history, they are her culture, and–most importantly–they are love.