Paul Prudhomme- Mentor, friend celebrated
I just returned from New Orleans where I’d flown to attend Chef Paul Prudhomme’s 70th birthday party as a surprise guest. I hardly got to talk to or see him because in true- Paul fashion, the party included all his employees who came to honor this...Victor Nava, Pastelero
Every time I come back from Mexico City and think about the marvelous meals I’ve had over the years at the home of my dear friend Victor Nava, I find that I am both elated and equally frustrated. Elated becausde the food is so good and frustrated because if...Why I love to teach
One of the most frustrating things to me is the fact that there are n0 inexpensive venues where I could give cooking classes without having to charge an arm and a leg. I get so many requests for cooking lessons and have no where to give them where it will be worth my...Una torta es una torta es una torta
Some of our guest contributors speak and write Spanish only and since a lot of my readers are bilingual Una torta es una torta es una torta * Inspirados hace 50 años en las típicas tortas ahogadas, los “lonches Gemma” se han convertido en un platillo tradicional de...Summer Entertaining with La Caja China
Since he was a young high school student at Dalton, my son Rodrigo was given to entertaining–like me. I was one of the few parents who would allow a group of his classmates, supervised by a teacher, to come and cook and have dinner at our apartment. They had...
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.