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TriniGourmet’s Review
Here is an excerpt from TriniGourmet’s review of La Cocina Mexicana: Many Cultures, One Cuisine. “Not only is it a loving record of the places and people she’s encountered in over 30 years of...
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Mexican Cuisine’s African Roots
As a great deal of the historical information was cut from my new book due to lack of space, I was recently asked to include some of the background on Africa’s influence on the Mexican cuisine for the...
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Vows on Horseback at Rancho Pitaya
This holiday, during our usual sojourn to Oaxaca, we had the privilege of attending my good friend Mary Jane Gagnier’s spectacular and very unique wedding to Bobby Ortiz. Mary Jane and Bobby own...
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Great food, friends and fond memories–Frontera Grill and Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless and Marilyn TausendSooke Harbour House, Marilyn’s 80th Birthday CelebrationPhoto by Bill Blair One morning, over twenty years ago, when in Chicago, I wanted to meet Rick Bayless, as his...
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Ride, Cook and Eat
Our good friends, Mary Jane and Bobby, have a new horseback adventure, Ride, Cook and Eat at their wonderful Rancho Pitaya located in the valle of Tlacolula 20 minutes from downtown Oaxaca. It includes...
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Chicken and biscuits, that’s what it takes to silence Rick Bayless
Shaw Lash used to work with Rick and Deann Bayless and now works as culinary producer for Panna, the video cooking magazine for iphone and ipads. This video from their website, really shows the...
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A cooking lesson with Pilar Cabrera
A delightful view of my good friend Pilar Cabrera as she teaches a few students about the art of making tamales, like the ones her grandmother taught her to make. Pilar is the chef of La Olla...
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Looking Back on our Chef’s Trip to Mexico City…
“No es de donde es el ingrediente originario, sino lo que el ingrediente representa para una cultura” . “It’s not the origin of an ingredient that’s important, but what that ingredient represents...
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“Cocina de fiesta: Oaxaca” August 31-September 10, 2024
Cook Reyna Mendoza at market in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca For our Oaxaca trip, we will begin (and end) in Mexico City, flying as a group to and from the Nation’s capital to Oaxaca City. There we...
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For our Oaxaca trip, we will begin (and end) in Mexico City, flying as a group to and from the Nation’s capital to Oaxaca City. There we shall contrast, what I call, the Euro-centric methods and...
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