Pati Jinich: Milanesa de Pollo and Mashed Potatoes

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Mexico City native Pati Jinich made an unusual career change: from a political analyst at a Washington, D.C. think tank to a cooking teacher and, eventually, award-winning PBS host. For over a decade, she’s been sharing her love of Mexico and Mexican cooking with the masses through her shows Pati's Mexican Table and La Frontera.

Pati is Mexican-Jewish, and grew up eating Mexican takes on classic Ashkenazi Jewish dishes. So after speaking with Jinich, host Rachel Belle also interviews the authors of the new book Kugels and Collards about another lesser-known mashup: Jewish South Carolina cooking!

And in taco news: After 35 years, the phrase Taco Tuesday is finally free from a federal trademark! Rachel digs into the whole story.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:20.0	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:23.2	The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into
0:27.3	the history, culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:31.6	Today on the program, Patti Yinich.
0:34.7	Patti has won three James Beard awards for hosting the PBS television series, Patti's Mexican Table. She also hosts LaFrontera on PBS, which is currently in its second season. Patti has written three cookbooks. She is resident chef at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., and she is just a ray of sunshine in human form.
0:55.3	Patti was born in Mexico City, where her Jewish grandparents immigrated from Europe.
0:59.7	So she grew up eating Mexican versions of classic Ashkenazi Jewish foods.
1:04.7	I chat with the authors of the new book, Cougalls and Collards, about another unexpected
1:09.4	mashup, Jewish Southern Food in South Carolina.
1:13.1	And did you know that the ubiquitous phrase Taco Tuesday has been protected by a trademark
1:17.7	for the last 35 years? Even small businesses serving tacos on Tuesday were getting cease
1:22.8	and desists. But not anymore. I'll tell you the whole story later in the show. But first, my conversation with
1:29.7	Patti Yinich. Hi, Patty. Hi. How are you? It's so nice to chat with you. It's so nice to chat with you.
1:43.4	We were in the same room once several years ago.
1:46.8	It went better for you than it went for me, but we were both at the James Beard Awards in 2018.
1:51.9	Oh my gosh.
1:53.1	Tell me about it.
1:54.4	And tell me, do you like to go?
1:55.3	I have always been drawn to stories about people who make dramatic career transitions, complete
2:00.7	180s from one field to another.
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