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She was scrupulous in crediting women and their families for her recipes and passionate about cooking sustainably

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Diana Kennedy, a British-born food writer whose dedication to Mexico's culinary heritage helped popularize the richness of the national cuisine in the English-speaking world, has died. She was 99. The Mexican culture ministry confirmed her death, and paid tribute to Kennedy's legacy, saying that she like few others understood that conserving nature and its diversity was crucial to upholding the myriad culinary traditions of Mexico. Arturo Sarukhan, a former Mexican ambassador to the United States, on Twitter described the death of the great Kennedy as a huge loss for Mex...

Testy and uncompromising, she drove her truck across Mexico for decades, collecting and preserving regional ingredients and recipes.

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Diana Kennedy, a tart-tongued British food writer devoted to Mexican cuisine, died Sunday. She was 99. Kennedy spent much of her life

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Diana Kennedy, a tart-tongued British food writer devoted to Mexican cuisine, died Sunday. She was 99. Kennedy spent much of her life learning and preserving the traditional cooking and ingredients of her adopted home, a mission that even in her 80s had her driving hundreds of miles across her adopted country in a rattling truck as she searched remote villages for elusive recipes.