November 10, 2024

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Diana Kennedy, British food writer devoted to Mexican cuisine, dies

Cookbook author Diana Kennedy at home in Zitacuaro, Mexico in November 1995.

MEXICO CITY — Diana Kennedy, a tart-tongued British foods writer devoted to Mexican delicacies, died Sunday. She was 99.

Kennedy used a great deal of her existence discovering and preserving the traditional cooking and elements of her adopted house, a mission that even in her 80s had her driving hundreds of miles throughout her adopted place in a rattling truck as she searched distant villages for elusive recipes.

Her almost dozen cookbooks, like “Oaxaca al Gusto,” which gained the 2011 James Beard Award for cookbook of the calendar year, reflect a lifetime of groundbreaking culinary contributions and her exertion to collect vanishing culinary traditions, a mission that commenced extended ahead of the relaxation of the culinary entire world was giving Mexican cooking the regard she felt it was thanks.

Her extensive-time pal Concepción Guadalupe Garza Rodríguez said that Kennedy died peacefully shortly right before dawn Sunday at her home in Zitacuaro, about 100 miles west of Mexico Metropolis.

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