Diana Kennedy – Oaxacan Cooking

(Community Matters) Big excitement for all cooks: Diana Kennedy’s newest cookbook has just been released in Mexico. It is extraordinarily beautiful and full of Oaxacan recipes. Diana is currently entertaining offers for publishing in the USA. I couldn’t help but weigh in on this one and recommended to our mutual friends (also dining at Fonda last night) that they engage Stud Muffin in the pitch to Diana. I love that Alice Waters and Diana are both releasing such definitive cook books. If you don’t have Waters’ The Art of Simple Food, you should – right up on the shelf with Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, with Diana’s other books: The Art of Mexican Cooking, My Mexico and The Essentials, with the New York Times Cookbook, The Joy of Cooking, back issues of Cooks Illustrated, Maida Heatter’s Book of Great Desserts, Giuliano Bugialli’s Italian cookbooks, Richard Olney’s Lulu’s Provencal Table & Simple French Food, Sally Schneider’s A New Way to Cook and Edna Lewis’ The Gift of Southern Cooking.