“She was my teacher and already miss her. Will cook together one day again!” tweeted Jose Andres, adding that she gave voice to many Mexican cooks, especially women.
Born in 1923 in Loughton, a town in the county of Essex, England, Kennedy became a prominent advocate for traditional Mexican food. After a stint in the Women Timber Corps during World War II, she traveled abroad from her native England, falling in love with the food of the lands she traveled to. She often spoke of her experiences, the first mango she ate “in Jamaica’s Kingston harbor, standing in clear, blue warm sea, all that sweet, sweet juice.
As her love for the food of Mexico grew, Kennedy opted to focus on Mexican food prepared in traditional family settings and “” — small family restaurants — rather than the “haute cuisine” of more monied establishments. In 2019, a documentary “Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy,” followed Kennedy in her element, still working to teach others of the culture she felt was owed its due after having gone overlooked by the global culture at large. Of the documentary,at the time that Kennedy was a great example of cultural “appreciation rather than appropriation.”
Kennedy said there are so many recipes out there, handed down from mother to daughter, that could be lost to time. Her life’s work was an attempt to save some of these traditions by sharing them with the word. that Kennedy “sowed respect” for Mexican communities and “harvested knowledge,” leaving valuable texts on the food wealth of Mexico, and also called her a “pillar of Mexican culture.” Kennedy’s “life was dedicated to discovering, compiling and preserving the richness of Mexican cuisine.
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