News

It was a lovely way to spend the morning with Nancy Cordes and Anthony Mason talking about dishes for Cinco de Mayo on CBS This Morning. Watch right here…
Continue reading
CBS This Morning: Chef Pati Jinich’s Cinco de Mayo feast

I have been looking forward to chatting with Joan Hamburg for such a long time! Listen in on our conversation here…
Continue reading
WOR Radio 710: The Joan Hamburg Show

It was a lot of fun talking to Fox News Radio‘s Lilian Woo about different ways to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
To listen, click here.
Continue reading
Fox News Radio: Cinco de Mayo with Pati’s Mexican Table

I really enjoyed telling the story of how I found the recipe for Piggy Cookies to Melissa Gray for NPR‘s All Things Considered.
Listen in and get the recipe, click here.

I spoke with syndicated food-columnist Linda Gassenheimer about Cinco de Mayo traditions, both in Mexico and in the US, on WLRN‘s Tropical Currents show. Wine correspondent Fred Tasker and hosts Joseph Cooper and Bonnie Berman also joined in.
To listen, click here.
Continue reading
WLRN: Tropical Currents

“Pati Jinich grew up in Mexico City. She’s acquired an impressive résumé since she decided to give up her career at a D.C. think tank. She’s hosted her own PBS series and has appeared on The Today Show, The Chew, NPR and The Splendid Table. As you try the recipes in her new cookbook, Pati’s Mexican Table: The Secrets of Real Mexican Home Cooking…which contains things like watermelon and tomatillo salad with feta; sweet and salty salmon; and my favorite, chicken tinga (made with rotisserie chicken you can pick up on the way home), you’ll be impressed by the simplicity and vibrant flavors of Jinich’s accessible Mexican fare…”
To read the entire review, click here.
Continue reading
Richmond Magazine: Spring’s New Cookbooks

“Pati Jinich, author of Pati’s Mexican Table: The Secrets of Real Mexican Home Cooking…wants you to know that Mexican cuisine is not ‘taco salads, nachos slathered with cheese, or overstuffed burritos.’ It’s not heavy or fried. Often, it’s not even that spicy.
As she writes in the introduction to her passionate new cookbook: ‘Show up in my kitchen any day of the year, and you’ll find soft corn tortillas, refried beans, at least two different salsas, the fresh Mexican cheese called queso fresco, ripe avocados and fresh fruit.’
Free Press reporter Bartley Kives recently wrote about new local restaurants that have allowed Winnipeggers to buy authentic Mexican tacos — the kind made without ‘orange ground beef,’ as he says. Jinich’s cookbook allows you to make authentic tacos at home, along with dishes like enchiladas verdes, pozole rojo, and Oaxaca-style mushroom and cheese quesadillas…”
To read the entire article, click here.

“The popularity of Mexican food is an all-time high and there’s a book (or two) for nearly every type of variation on the cuisine imaginable, whether it’s regional fare, haute cuisine or chef-driven interpretations of classic meals. But more often than not, home cooks want a volume that will help them make everyday meals taste a little better – or in the case of ‘Pati’s Mexican Table,’ a lot like the Mexican meals that immediately remind one of home and family.
‘Pati’s Mexican Table’ – the newest release by noted PBS television show host Pati Jinich – is a compilation of simple, home-style Mexican recipes. You won’t find greasy nachos or overstuffed quesadillas here; instead, Jinich focuses on the use of simple staples like soft corn tortillas, eggs, basic cuts of meat and lush produce, transforming them with fragrant spices, magical salsas and traditional Mexican cooking techniques to yield deeply flavorful, south-of-the-border-inspired meals that are right at home in any American kitchen. In short, this is home cooking for the people who really do cook at home…”
To read the entire review, click here.
Continue reading
NBC Latino: Cookbooks we love: “Pati’s Mexican Table”

“Pati Jinich nunca pensó que su carrera de analista política le iba a servir para el oficio que desempeña en la actualidad: ser la chef instructora del programa Pati’s Mexican Table del Instituto Cultural de México en Washington, D.C.
‘Era muy romántica, idealista, quería ayudar a México y a sus inmigrantes con ideas, artículos, ensayos’, dice Jinich, hija de padre arquitecto y joyero —que ahora es ‘restauranteur’— y de madre corredora de arte y dueña de su propia galleria…”
Para leer el artículo completo, haga clic aquí.
Continue reading
AARP: Pati Jinich, la intelectual de la cocina mexicana

I got such a kick out of being included in this video recap of the week’s events at the National Press Club. It highlights the Republican National Committee, the United Nations, Syria, the French military, the US Senate — and Mexican cooking! It completely represents what an honor it was for me to be invited to host a dinner and talk about Mexican food at the Press Club. Watch the whole thing here…
Continue reading
The National Press Club: Rewind












