Once a child farm worker, Eduardo ‘Lalo’ García Guzmán rejects tidy narratives about immigration and the respectability Americans quietly demand of migrants
The Mexican chef Eduardo “Lalo” García Guzmán migrated to the US with his family from rural Guanajuato, Mexico, when he was a small child. Instead of attending school, he spent most days working with his family picking fruits and vegetables from Florida to Michigan.
It was dangerous work, but García looks back fondly at his early experiences as a child farm worker.
