CALDO DE GALLINA was conceived from a rumination on Latinx identity. Created as a marker of distance between Indigeneity and Whiteness, Latinidad has never felt accessible to me as a Guatemalan and Black woman who is neither. Amid stares in Latinx spaces, doubts cast upon my Spanish-speaking abilities, and erasure in representation, food has acted as an access point that cannot be withheld. Through my mother’s hands, I can reach generations before me and appreciate decades of editing and perfecting. Recipes never written, yet so referential in their very nature.