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Diana Kennedy (born 3 March 1923) is a Mexican cooking authority known for her 9 books on the subject, including ''The Cuisines of Mexico'', which started changing how Americans view Mexican cooking. Her work is the basis of much of the work of Mexican chefs in the United States. Her cookbooks are distinctive because they are based on her fifty years of traveling Mexico, interviewing and learning from cooks of all kinds in the country, and from just about every region. Her work has also documented native edible plants, which has been digitized by National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity. Kennedy has received numerous awards for her work, including the Order of the Aztec Eagle from the Mexican government and membership in the Order of the British Empire. ==Life== Kennedy was born Diana Southwood in Loughton, Essex in the southeast of England.〔 Her father was a salesman and the mother, a schoolteacher, who loved nature and wanted to live quietly in the countryside. Kennedy did not attend college because of World War II, instead she joined the Women’s Timber Corps at age 19. The Corps a British civilian organization which took over forestry duties from men who had gone off to fight.〔 She did not like cutting down trees so she was delegated to measuring tree trunks instead.〔 In 1953, she migrated to Canada, living there three years, doing a number of jobs including running a film library and selling Wedgewood china.〔 A last minute decision, Kennedy decided to visit revolutionary Haiti in 1957. There she met Paul P. Kennedy, a correspondent for The New York Times in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.〔 She then decided to move to Mexico with him in 1957, and there they married some time later.〔 She has never had children.〔 She does have two step-daughters, Dr. Moira Kennedy-Simms, and Brigid Kennedy; daughters of Paul P. Kennedy, and his first wife, Martha Combs Kennedy. She became enamored of the food, and has since dedicated her career to its preservation and promotion.〔 However, she still maintains her British accent and takes tea each day.〔 She has worked all her life and cannot imagine not working. When she is not teaching, she is either writing of working in the kitchen on recipes.〔 She is noted for her brusque, no-nonsense demeanor, having pulled out tape recorders when police have tried to get bribes from her on her Mexican travels.〔 She has visited every state in Mexico, on all kinds of transportation, from buses, to donkeys to her Nissan pickup truck with no power steering (and a shovel to dig it out of the mud).〔〔 She has traveled to many isolated areas of Mexico to visit markets and cooks to ask about cooking ingredients and methods.〔 In the 1970s, she decided to build her house in Michoacán in an area with orchards. The land has allowed her to grow many of her own ingredients.〔 While she is not technophobic, she is against electronic forms of cookbooks, believing in the need to make notes over printed recipes.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diana Kennedy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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