Chef Yotam Ottolenghi and Mayukh Sen
Food with Mark Bittman
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Assimilation in Mexican Cooking
i think that the assimilation, when it comes to the women i wrote about in particular, usually manifested in terms of using certain ingredients or having short cuts. The example that comes to mind in particular is elena elietta, who is the subject of my ond chapter or so. She was born in mexico and spent most of her career in the bay area. And she went blind as an adult, and then she taught herself how to cook again after losing her sight. So a lot of her books had certain short cuts, you know, this a perticular cousine, a mexican cousine,. A little more palatable, let's say, to white
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