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April 15th, 2008 edition of The Daily Sauce: Food and Wine. Visit Our Food and Wine Archive.

Diana Kennedy Book Signing

Back in 1989, cooking Mexican food at home usually meant opening a box of Old El Paso. That was, unless you had a copy of The Art of Mexican Cooking by Diana Kennedy. Then you were really cooking authentic dishes like chicken mole verde and Oaxacan Beef Stew and using traditional ingredients like tripe and corn fungus.

Kennedy has lived in Zitacuaro, Mexico, for 50 years and has published many cookbooks; The Art of Mexican Cooking was her most famous and is now back in print in all its glory. That means she’s traveling around, signing copies of the reissued hardback. But St. Louis wasn’t on her schedule until Robin Lynch, owner of Salt of the Earth galleries and stores, took a cooking class in Kennedy’s home last summer and joked that maybe the author would venture to St. Louis to sign books and conduct a cooking class. What started as a joke is now reality: While Kennedy’s cooking class at Kitchen Conservatory has been long sold-out, you can have the grand dame of Mexican cooking sign your own copy of her famous book. Mole not included.

Sauce pick: Diana Kennedy signs her The Art of Mexican Cooking
Price: The book signing is free, but the book retails for $30.
Where to get it: Both locations of Salt of the Earth: Fri., April 18 – 6 p.m. at 1123 Locust, downtown, and Sat., April 19 – 1 to 4 p.m., 8150 Big Bend Blvd., Webster Groves.
Info: Downtown store, 314.241.8008. Webster Groves store, 314.963.1919.

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