Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy review – fiery queen of Mexican cuisine

Elizabeth Carroll’s documentary dishes up a delicious portrait of the formidable Englishwoman who became a champion of Mexican food

The 97-year-old food writer Diana Kennedy is the very model of something rarely seen today, or even 20 or 30 years ago: the formidable Englishwoman abroad. And, despite having made Mexico her home for decades, and being deeply respected there for her lifelong mission to educate the world about Mexican cuisine, I suspect she still thinks of it, just a little bit, as “abroad”.

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