Diana Kennedy - Biography

Biography

• 1923 Born March 3, in Loughton, Essex, UK.
• 1941 Joined the Timber Corps.
• 1953 Emigrated to Canada.
• 1957 Arrived in México to marry Paul P. Kennedy, foreign correspondent for the New York Times.
• Started to study and record Mexican recipes and ingredients informally.
• 1966 Moved to New York where Paul died in 1967.
• 1969 At Craig Claiborne's (food editor of New York Times) urging started to give Mexican cooking lessons in New York and spent more than half the next 7 years travelling intensively to do research for future books.
• 1972 Since the publication of the first book, The Cuisines of Mexico, until the present day, giving cooking lessons in classical Mexican cuisine, in practically all the principal cities of the United States and Mexico, including special programs in Atlanta, Aspen, Hawaii, Monterey, San Diego, Vail, Washington DC many of them for the Mexican government. Has given classes and illustrated lectures on the foods and markets of Mexico in Hawaii, Canada, the UK. Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Illustrated talks on the edible plants of México to the Society for Economic Botany, and the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden.