For background: as a personal project, my wife and I are going through
The Art of Mexican Cooking: Traditional Mexican Cooking for Aficionados: A Cookbook by Diana Kennedy, with the intent of making all the recipes where we can obtain the ingredients and can make a reasonable facsimile using vegetarian foods.
And two days ago, Cathy discovered that a documentary exists about Diana Kennedy's life from a few years ago. This is just the trailer:
We watched it last night and found it delightful. If you're interested in Mexican cookery, you might like it just for that. If you're a fan of Mrs. Kennedy, I'm sure you'll like it.
The thing that caught me off guard was all the advocacy for permaculture-friendly topics! She spoke out against growing with chemicals, even fertilizer, and in favor of compost. She shamed vendors in the market for selling food with dyes in it. She preferred cooking in cast iron and clay with whole foods. She had an "ecological" house built. She used lots of hand tools. She foraged and spoke out in favor of rich polyculture. She talked about Earth- and water-care, zero waste, less/primitive soaps, etc. She was affirmative that we can each do our part to save the world through little things like reusing the back of junk mail as scratch paper.
Anyway, it was a little over an hour long, no topic got in-depth coverage, but it was kind of a sweet look at this crotchety old woman's life and contributions.
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