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Plática y Prueba: Classic Mexican Desserts inspired by Josefina Velázquez de León cookbooks
Get ready for Valentine’s Day! Join ArtBites’s Maite-Gomez-Rejón, curator of Josefina Velázquez de Leon: The Forgotten Legacy of a Culinary Pioneer display, for a conversation on the history of Mexican desserts and a seasonal tasting of Ensoletado de mamey or Postre de fresa inspired by Josefina Velázquez de Leon’s cookbook, Febrero: 29 Menus Prácticos y Económicos. Guest speaker, Maite Gomez Rejón.
Maite Gomez-Rejón
Maite Gomez-Rejón is the founder of ArtBites. She has dedicated her career to exploring the nexus of art and culinary history through lectures, cooking classes, and tastings presented in museums across the country. Maite has a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Grande Diplome from the French Culinary Institute in New York City. She has been a guest on the Today Show, featured in Food & Wine magazine, and interviewed on KCRW's Good Food and NPR's Splendid Table. She is also a contributor to Life & Thyme, Eaten Magazine, Gastro Obscura and other publications. Her essay, “Mexico's Early Cookbooks,” appears in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History.
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