Diana kennedy, the forthright and indefatigable food writer, died on july 20 fourth at the age of 99. She was a staunch advocate of traditional mexican cooking created by mexico's indigenous population. The recipe of hers that i'm most enamoured with right now is for what she calls a mole verde. Her attitude was really underpinned by a strong sense of how things should be and by a ferocious attachment to a vanishing world.