Pack Your Knives and Go

Cooking vacations that steer clear of the tourist traps.

I’m a bit afraid to admit that during “One Plate at at Time” month I actually made a recipe from a different Mexican cookbook. But in my defense, it was at my wife’s request to try something a little more...

You could try contacting Marilyn Tausend of Culinary Adventures, Inc. in Gig Harbor, WA. She’s known Diana for years and actually has a week long culinary trip - “Cooking wiht Diana Kennedy” - scheduled for...

Diana Kennedy is in Michoacan, and if you can wait until I get home tonight, I can probably find the correct town. You can also try contacting her through Marilyn Tausend who usually has a 1 week intensive (limited to no more...

from those books? I also have his Authentic Mexican, all of Diana K’s books, Zarela Martinez, Patricia Quintana, Aida Gabilondo and Marilyn Tausend's book of recipes she has collected from Mexican families now living in the...

Run, do not walk, to Marilyn Tausend who knows everyone and everything about food & cooking in Mexico. Info on tours, etc. can be found at marilyntausend.com. No, we’re not related and I don’t get a pink Cadillac...

of My Heart, Xilonen and Marilyn Tausend. If you go through Monterrey, good meals can be had at El Gran San Carlos – cabrtio, some Spanish will be helpful as you will be the only non-locals in the place. La Valencia and La...

check out Marilyn Tausend's “Mexico the Beautiful” cookbook. Yes, it looks like a coffee table book (and it is) but the recipes are good, they work, and Marilyn has been traveling in Mexico for 50+ years. (Disclaimer,...

Recipes" by Elena Zelayeta. If you could see my dog eared stained copy, you would know how I depended on it so much in those early years. Another that I think is good for a novice is “Cocina De La Familia” by Marilyn...

If you’re looking for homestyle cooking, I’d like to add a different recommendation — “Cocina de la Familia” by Marilyn Tausend is highly rated on Amazon. I own it, and although I’ve yet to...

Tausend's web site – Culinary Adventures. Marilyn puts together several small group cooking tours each year. She has one starting this weekend that will go from Mexico City to Acapulco. It is already sold out, but she will...

I’ve done week long cooking classes in Mexico with Marilyn Tausend - http://www.marilyntausend.com – and will be doing a week with Diana Kennedy in July 2007. I also did a day class at Susanna Trilling’s cooking...

Two words: Marilyn Tausend at http://marilyntausend.com/ Marilyn owns Culinary Adventures and really knows her stuff. She’s been leading culinary tours for about twenty years. If it is not advisable to visit Oaxaca at the...

also might want to check out the Mexico the Beautiful book or – believe it or not – the William Sonoma Mexican book, both were written by Marilyn Tausend who has an outstanding grasp on Mexican cuisine. That said, here...

In addition to Marilyn Tausend's tours are those offered by Betsy McNair, who wrote the relatively new and colorful, “Mexicocina.” Betsy has a great tour business called, “My Mexico Tours,”...