The Stand Up Desk
December 20, 2022
Once Upon a Time, “Southwestern Cuisine” Was a Movement
A writer remembers how a chance conversation at a food festival led to her classic 2014 oral history on Southwestern cuisine.
A writer remembers how a chance conversation at a food festival led to her classic 2014 oral history on Southwestern cuisine.
A Texas transplant to California is unhappy about the ubiquity of the “nasty and repugnant weed."
The fiercely passionate author, now 96, recently donated her extensive archives and rare cookbooks to UTSA.
By her dedication, her rigor, her almost overwhelming enthusiasm, Diana Kennedy forced a generation of cooks to take Mexican food seriously and jolted Texans into realizing that there is life beyond the combination dinner.