2-week glorious vacation Part 1
If I still had the restaurant I wouldn’t have been able to take 2 weeks plus off and would have missed the glorious vacation/celebration I just returned from. The itinerary took me to Albuquerque, El Paso, Texas, Casas Grandes,, Chihuahua, Mexico City ending...Cooking classes are not just about cooking..
I added this in memory of my mother Yesterday I received the most surprising and heart-warming letter that I want to share with you because this is exactly why I love to teach: Dear Ms. Martinez: My sister and I attended one of your cooking demonstrations at...Desiderata – Violeta
Okay, so I said I’d never be that way, that I had no interest in being a grandmother that I’d never gush and feel about to burst from pride and love for the extraordinary being that is my granddaughter Violeta. She always manages to surprise but...My wedding dress
Place Juarez, Chihuahua. Year 1975 and my wedding day approaching. My mother-in-law to be casually asks me if I am going to wear white for my wedding. My response: No, it’s actually off-white. Mother-in-law to be, slightly shocked, says “with a veil and...
The many lives of Zarela Martínez
Culinary legend Zarela Martínez introduced finely tuned, highly researched regional Mexican cuisine to a national stage, and has continued to blaze trails for more than three decades.