Pati Jinich
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Patricia Jinich (born March 30, 1972) is an award-winning Mexican chef, television presenter, cookbook author, and food blogger.
Pati's Mexican Table is best known for her James Beard Award-winning and Emmy nominated public television series Pati's Mexican Table.
Pati's Mexican Table, her first cookbook, was released in March 2013 and her second book, Mexican Today, was published in April 2016.Jinich is the resident chef at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., where she has been running her "Mexico Table" live culinary program since 2007.
She has appeared on The Today Show, The Chew, The Talk, CBS This Morning, The Home and Family Show, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and The Splendid Table among other media.
In The Washington Post, her food writing has appeared.
Jinich was invited to cook at the White House for President Barack Obama's Cinco de Mayo dinner in May 2014.
In May 2018, she cooked at the James Beard House in New York city for their Cinco de Mayo dinner.
Early life
Jinich was born and raised in Mexico City by a Jewish family. The youngest of four sisters and her grandparents were Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe. During World War II, Jinich's maternal grandfather, who established a silver shop in Mexico, came from Bratislava. Her grandmother, a seamstress, left Vienna for New York before heading to Mexico. The two people met in Europe and then reunited in Mexico. Her father, an entrepreneur and a jeweler who converted restaurateur, and her mother ran an art gallery.
Growing up, food was always a central part of Jinich's family life. Early on, her three older sisters returned to the culinary arts, but Jinich aspired to a career in academia. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in Latin-American studies from Georgetown University, and spent time as a political analyst for the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington, DC think tank, before switching careers.
On a blind date, she met her husband, Daniel Jinich, who is also Jewish-Mexico, and she was reunited. When she was 24 years old, they were married in Mexico City in 1996.
Personal life
Alan, Samuel ("Sami"), and Julian ("Juju") Jinich lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her partner Daniel Jinich and their three children. Karen Drijanski, a Mexican sister, is a chef. Sharon Drijanski, her sister, is a designer and has published vegetarian cookbooks. Alisa Drijanski, a third sister who is married to former Telemundo president Emilio Romano, is married to former Telemundo president Emilio Romano.
Culinary career
When Jinich and her partner moved to Dallas, Texas, she first started researching and cooking Mexican cuisine out of homesickness for her hometown Mexico City. She was soon teaching Mexican cooking to friends and neighbors. At the same time, she was assisting KERA, the Dallas public television station, with a documentary about the Mexican Revolution, but they needed assistance with a different project, PBS' New Tastes from Texas, for which she worked as a production assistant.
She and her husband and their first-born son were in Washington, D.C., where she resumed her academic pursuits, received her master's degree from Georgetown, and started attending her "dream job" at the Inter-American Dialogue, but she never stopped thinking about food and enrolled in L'Academie de Cuisine in Maryland, two years ago.
Before meeting with the executive director of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, who advised her to bring her cooking program to the institute, Jinich imagined herself writing articles about Mexican cuisine and teaching it in her home kitchen. In 2007, she founded her "Mexican Table" series of live cooking demonstrations as well as multi-course tasting dinners, which she still operates today. Jinich's skillful Mexican cuisine is complemented by her knowledge of the country's history and regions. Each one investigates a single subject, such as Mexican Revolution dishes, a historical vanilla menu, or convent foods from colonial Mexico.
Around the same time, she started blogging about Mexican cuisine, was followed by invitations to write about food for print publications, and to give talks and cooking demonstrations for radio and TV shows.
Television producers were taken aback by Jinich's charisma and intelligence. After researching different media outlets, she found that WETA-TV in Washington, DC, was the right place for Pati's Mexican Table because of her dedication to authenticity and the freedom that the PBS and public-TV networks allow over the content of its shows.
Pati's Mexican Table's first season aired in 2011 and featured an episode that focused on Mexican cooking's influence on Sephardic and Lebanese influences. In 2012, the best-selling cookbook of the same name was released.
Her book, which is based on everyday family recipes that she makes and serves to her husband and three children, is based on basic family meals that she prepares and serves to her husband and three sons.
Awards and accolades
- Pati's Mexican Table won a James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Television Program in Studio or Fixed Location (2020)
- Won a Gracie Award for On-Air Talent – Lifestyle for Pati's Mexican Table (2020)
- Pati's Mexican Table won an Imagen Award for Best Reality Program (2020)
- Pati's Mexican Table won an IACP Award for Culinary Television Series (2020)
- Named to Hola! USA's "Latina Powerhouse Top 100" List (2020)
- Nominated for a Realscreen Award for Lifestyle - Studio-based Food Program (2020)
- Pati's Mexican Table won a James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Television Program in Studio or Fixed Location (2019)
- Nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Host (2019)
- Won a James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Personality/Host for Pati's Mexican Table (2018)
- Pati's Mexican Table won an Imagen Award for Best Reality Program (2018)
- Named one of the Top-5 Border Ambassadors between the U.S. and Mexico by Americas Quarterly (2017)
- Nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Television Program in Studio or Fixed Location (2017)
- Nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Host (2016)
- Nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program (2016)
- Nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Personality/Host (2016)
- Nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Television Program in Studio or Fixed Location (2016)
- Won an Imagen Award for Best National Informational Program (2016)
- Won two consecutive Taste Awards for Best Ethnic Program (2016, 2015)
- Nominated for an Imagen Award for Best National Informational Program (2014)
- Nominated for an IACP Award for Best Culinary Series (2014)
- The cookbook Pati's Mexican Table was selected for the 2013 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Best in the World List
- Jinich cooked at the White House for President Barack Obama's Cinco de Mayo Dinner (2014)
- Named to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Kitchen Cabinet Board for the American Food History Project (2014)
- Named to the United Nations' Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Chefs Corps (2015)