Patricia Quintana Explained

Patricia Quintana
Children:Patricio y Francisco
Birth Name:Patricia Quintana Fernández
Birth Date:28 October 1946
Birth Place:Mexico
Death Place:Mexico
Occupation:Chef, writer, businesswoman, professor

Patricia Quintana Fernández (28 October 1946 – 26 November 2018),[1] was a Mexican chef, writer, businesswoman and professor. She was a recognized international cook and expert in Mexican gastronomy.

Biography

Patricia Quintana was a specialist in Mexican regional cooking who was born in México and studied abroad in Canada, Switzerland and France – later returning to Mexico as a recognized chef. She studied and taught ancestral Mexican cuisine mixed with the classical cuisine. She was the owner of the restaurant Izote in City of Mexico from 2001 to the 2013, but resigned to start a banquet catering company.[2] [3]

She was the creator of the brand of dressings "Gavilla", a brand under which today has about 16 products. She directed the menus that were served aboard Mexican airlines.[4]

She collaborated in many television programs and wrote articles about cuisine for several newspapers and magazines, both domestic and international.

She was the mother of Patricio Pasquel.[5]

Patricia died at the age of 72, on 26 November 2018 of natural causes.

Prizes and honours

She was a culinary ambassador of her country to the world, a distinction that awarded her to the Office of Tourism and the Association of Restaurants of Mexico.[6]

She received the Silver Spoon Prize awarded by the magazine "Food Arts"; the Prize of the Gold Laurel by part of the Association Mexico Spain, and the Prize to Employer Restaurantero of the Year, delivered by the CANIRAC in Mexico.

Books

She wrote more than twenty-five books that are references for gastronomic Mexicans. She traveled through every region of Mexico doing research for her books.[7]

YearTitleISBNPublishingOthers
The kitchen is game
1992It populates968499933X
2002The sabro of Mexico9681840364
The kitchen of the gods of the water
2005The Mulli9707770953 Group Ocean
Dust of Jade9709455702PQ Editions
Practical kitchen
The best of Patricia Quintana
Parties of the life
Kitchen gone and turn
The feast of the Mictlán
Cymbal City of Mexico
The big book of the antojitos Mexican

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Patricia Quintana, Champion of Mexican Cuisine, Dies at 72 . Tejal . Rao . 29 November 2018 . The New York Times . 30 November 2018 . https://archive.today/20181130060437/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/obituaries/patricia-quintana-dead.html . 30 November 2018 . live .
  2. Web site: Patricia Quintana Biografía. Start Chefs. United States. 28 July 2013.
  3. Web site: El Izote renace. El Universal. México. 28 February 2013. 28 July 2013.
  4. Web site: Una cocinera mexicana en busca del tiempo perdido. https://archive.today/20130729025748/http://www.madridfusion.net/chefs_largo.php?id=0000000095. dead. 29 July 2013. Madrid Fusión. Spain. 28 July 2013.
  5. Web site: Patricia Quintana: Liderazgo con sello propio. soyentrepreneur. México. 28 August 2012. 28 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130224141744/http://soyentrepreneur.com/21998-liderazgo-con-sello-propio.html. 24 February 2013. dead.
  6. Web site: Los poderosos de México. El Universal. México. 4 June 2013. 28 July 2013.
  7. Book: Sayers., Peden, Margaret. Out of the volcano : portraits of contemporary Mexican artists. 1991. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1560980605. Washington, D.C.. 23733477. registration.