Things to do: FREE Cooking Up History Demo with Chef Zarela Martínez Oct. 6th Recipe

Cooking Up History is The incredible chef, restaurateur, author, entrepreneur, scholar and cultural interpreter Zarela Martinez will be at the National Museum of American History in the Demonstration Kitchen this weekend to explore regional Mexican Chef Martinez was “discovered” in 1979 by New Orleans Chef Paul Prudhomme, and four years later she opened a catering business called El Paso, which is still open today. In 1987 Chef Martinez opened up Zarela in NYC, which was open for over twenty years, and since then she has written three books, created a PBS series, and has sold numerous cooking products from her line. She has come a long way from her cattle ranch in Sonora, Mexico, but Chef Martinez stated in an interview by…