One Tamal, Two Tamales

30 Minutes features a presentation from the 2016 Tucson Festival of Books sponsored by Nuestras Raices, a program of the Pima County Library. Margarita Carrillo Arronte spoke on a panel entitled One Tamal, Two Tamales: the Ancient Art of Mexican Cuisine. She discusses the process of becoming a home cook, and then becoming a professional chef and author and representative of authentic Mexcian cuisine.

Hailing from the birthplace of chiles, vanilla, and chocolate, world-renowned Mexican chef Margarita Carrillo Arronte will seduce your taste buds as she leads you on a sensuous tour of the sun-kissed regions featured in her unprecedented culinary love story: Mexico: the Cookbook.

This is part 1 of 2. Moderated by Mark Whittaker. Recorded and produced by Amanda Shauger