Diana Silva created and produces Molé Mama, a multi-media platform all about connecting with food and with family. Molé Mama qualifies as a Food Disruptor because she offers an accessible means for stepping out of the powerful currents of our industrial food system and planting a firm stake of community, around which other food disruptors, big and little, can grow.

Diana Silva with her Magical Molcajete

Molé Mama advocates for saving -- and of course cooking from -- family recipes. Not only is this a way to connect with people close to us, but family recipes can connect us over time and space, filling the void of absence. As Diana has said, the secret ingredient that makes all family recipes so special, even magical, is love.

But if you, like so many of us, lack an inherited treasure of handed-down recipes, do not despair. Molé Mama is just the forum you need to begin creating your own legacy of delicious connection. Diana's cooking videos take us right into her kitchen, where we can craft amazing Mexican food as only a Latina who grew up on a dairy farm on California's Central Coast knows how. Molé Mama offers us the real deal -- no twee extravagant or extraneous flourishes, just authentic, affordable, mouth-watering meals.

There is so much more to the Molé Mama community. Her lines of connection zip right through The Food Disruptors' nexus: Where Capitalism meets America's Food Culture. Many of Molé Mama Cooking With Love podcasts feature entrepreneurs in the food space. The unique and delightful spin is that many of these are boot-strapping Latinas who have gravitated to some aspect of their cultural heritage and brought to market food and objects related to food. These growing businesses, some of them alone, others as part of the broader culinary community into which Molé Mama is plugged, WILL shift our food system. 

Much of The Food Disruptors historical stories relate to broad demographic shifts in the United States. As of 2018, 58.9 million residents of the U.S.-- nearly 20% of the population -- were of Latino descent. The math is easy; the coming hispanic-market food disruption will be major. Check out Molé Mama to get a big, delicious taste of what's coming.

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