When you talk to Victor Valle, you can immediately tell he is passionate about two things: his Mexican heritage and the food that comes with it.
In 1984, Valle — now a professor emeritus in the Ethnic Studies Department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo — won the Pulitzer Prize with other Chicano journalists at the Los Angeles Times for a groundbreaking series on Latinos in Southern California. Soon after, he decided to change his career path to look deeper into the history, politics and presence of the Latino community in the United States.
