Pati Jinich
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Jinich at the Daytime Emmy Awards
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| Born |
March 30, 1972 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Chef, TV Personality, Cookbook Author |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Known for | Pati's Mexican Table, PBS series |
| Website | patijinich |
Patricia "Pati" Jinich (born March 30, 1972) is an award-winning Mexican-American chef, TV personality, cookbook author, and food writer. She is best known for her double Emmy- and double James Beard-nominated PBS television series Pati's Mexican Table. Her first cookbook, also Pati's Mexican Table, was published in March 2013 and her second cookbook, Mexican Today, was published in April 2016.
Jinich is the resident chef at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, where she has run her Mexican-table live culinary program since 2007. She has appeared on The Today Show, The Chew, The Talk, CBS This Morning, The Home and Family Show, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and The Splendid Table among other media. Her food writing has appeared in The Washington Post. In May 2014, Jinich was invited to cook at the White House for President Barack Obama's Cinco de Mayo dinner.
Jinich was born and raised in Mexico City in a Jewish Mexican family, and is the youngest of four sisters. Her grandparents were Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe. Her father was an architect and a jeweler who turned restaurateur, and her mother ran an art gallery.
Food was always an important part of Jinich's family life growing up. Her three older sisters pursued the culinary arts early on, but Jinich grew up dreaming of a career in academia. She earned a political science bachelor's degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and a master's degree in Latin-American studies from Georgetown University, and she worked as a political analyst at a Washington, DC, think tank before switching careers.
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