Gorditas (Little Fat Ones)
Gorditas were a favorite way to entertain in Juárez. My sister Clarissa had friends who would hire a woman to come to their house and make gorditas for parties. So I started doing them for my clients, with great success – people love watching a steady stream of fresh...
Preserving Diversity through Corn Whiskey with Yira Vallejo- Notes
Prior to our recording, we asked Yira to send us some information on her current projects. She blew our mind! SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES 1. I worked with my husband, Jonathan Barbieri, to established the 1st lending library in San Luis...Episode 15 …Until it Sounds Like Sand: Rick Bayless on Rice
Rick Bayless Chef, Entrepreneur American chef and restaurateur that specializes in traditional Mexican cuisine with modern interpretations. Host of 2 PBS series’: Cooking Mexican (1978-1979) and Mexico: one plate at a time (2003-) Born in Oklahoma to a family of...
If You Really Want to Cook Like Me
Thanks to trending on Twitter many, many new users have signed up for my website so I will be reposting some of the most popular articles like this one from my book Zarela’s Veracruz (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) If you really want to cook like me… It’s like...
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.