James Beard Award winner
David Leite
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Portrait of David Leite
i. Biography
David Leite is the founder of Leite's Culinaria, the defining fact in a career tied to Portuguese cuisine. His signature work, *Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression*, carries that food story into memoir.
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The Essentials His turn toward the kitchen came after leaving home: "Actually, it wasn't when I was growing up but rather when I had moved away that I began poking around in the kitchen." Family recipes became the work after loss: "It happened after my grandmother, Vovo Costa, passed away in the early ‘90s. When she died, so did some of her recipes." "That's when I embarked upon a journey to preserve our family’s recipes."
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He works through the culinary site he founded.
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He is a founder, author, and three-time James Beard Award winner.
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He is known for Portuguese cuisine and a memoir about food, love, and Manic Depression.
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