Founder & Author
Responsible for the overall direction, voice and reader experience of GUSTANA.
About the Author
Meet the person behind GUSTANA.
GUSTANA is a recipe and cooking publication built around everyday food, clear guidance and the practical questions that come up in real kitchens.
Founder & Author
Débora Justo
I created GUSTANA to make everyday cooking easier to navigate — whether you are deciding what to make for dinner, looking for a recipe or trying to understand a practical kitchen question.
The site brings recipes, cooking guidance, ingredient information and useful resources together in one place, with an emphasis on clarity and everyday usefulness.
My role is to shape the direction of GUSTANA and keep the publication focused on content that is approachable, practical and genuinely helpful to the reader.
Good food for real life.
At a glance
The perspective behind GUSTANA.
How the author’s role connects to the recipes, cooking guidance and overall direction of the publication.
Everyday recipes & cooking
Food, kitchen guidance and practical resources designed around real everyday needs.
Practical, clear & useful
Information that helps without making everyday cooking feel unnecessarily complicated.
Why GUSTANA
Built around the questions that come up while you cook.
What can I make tonight? Can I substitute this ingredient? How much do I need? Can I make it ahead? What should I serve with it?
Those everyday questions are part of cooking. GUSTANA brings recipes and practical guidance together so readers can find useful answers without having to piece everything together across different places.
Editorial approach
What matters in every recipe and guide.
The principles that shape how cooking information is organized and presented across GUSTANA.
Useful details first
Information should help someone cook, choose ingredients, store food or better understand what they are making.
Everyday ingredients in context
Recipes and guides should make ingredients, quantities and everyday kitchen decisions easier to understand.
Clear substitutions & limitations
Alternatives should explain when a substitution, variation or different method may change the final result.
Easy-to-follow structure
Important information should be easy to find, with practical answers presented without unnecessary complication.
A note from Débora
Practical is part of the recipe.
GUSTANA is designed to be useful before anything else. Every page should make it easier to decide what to cook, understand a recipe or feel more comfortable with an everyday kitchen question.
As the site grows, that practical point of view remains at the center of the publication.
From the kitchen
Find something good to cook.
Browse everyday recipes, dinner ideas and practical cooking guidance from GUSTANA.