Personal life. Jinich lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her husband Daniel Jinich and their three sons: Alan, Samuel (“Sami”), and Julian (“Juju”).
I was born and raised in Mexico.
That is the first thing I say when people ask where my love for food comes from. Although I think that should explain most of it, it usually doesn’t.
I come from a family of accomplished cooks and food maniacs. Most of what I read, think, research, test and teach (including to my three boys, much to the dismay of my mother in law) is about food. I guess that doesn’t explain most of it either…
In hindsight, I think my interest in food built up as I tried to deny it. As a political analyst, I left things related to food for my spare time. As my husband and I started to grow a family, I began to think he was a macho man in disguise, who wanted a wife in the kitchen, since he insisted I quit my academic path to jump into cooking. Things you are truly passionate about, he would say, haven’t you noticed?
I did have wonderful incursions into the culinary field in the past. Right after we got married and moved to Texas, I taught Mexican cooking to friends and neighbors. Then, I became a production assistant for the PBS food series New Tastes from Texas hosted by Chef Stephan Pyles, along with guests Diana Kennedy and Patricia Quintana, pioneers who helped introduce Mexican ingredients into American cooking.
Once we moved to DC, I retook my formal path as a political analyst and received a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University. I worked so hard, I got a merit scholarship and felt very proud. Soon after, I worked at the Inter American Dialogue, a policy research center, which I had considered my dream job, and kept on working even harder!
Yet, I got into an existential crisis of sorts… Obsessively thinking about food rather than politics, after a year, I registered for the night program at L’Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland. After a lot of hesitation, I decided to take a plunge, and left my job to give food a real try. Since then, I have never looked back. In 2007, prompted by the Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., I became the resident chef and started teaching cooking classes and making special dinners. In my kitchen prepping recipes for Pati’s Mexican Table!
Long story short, a couple years later I started a blog, which then became this site, and a few years later I was able to launch Pati’s Mexican Table, a national public TV series.
These days, Jinich has an unusual dual life as a DC mom (she’s a Georgetown Day School parent who once claimed to eat 2 Amys pizza twice a week) and a culinary star (that bit about 2 Amys came from an appearance on Food Network). Her down-to-earth sensibility was helpful in putting together La Frontera. “I’m a Mexican, Jewish, immigrant woman,” says Jinich, who avoids getting overtly political on the show. “It’s pretty clear where I stand. I’ve been trying to break misconceptions about Mexicans, and the borderlands are even more misunderstood. I want to show how this is a place where people are living their daily lives.”
Pati Jinich has her own way of welcoming a visitor into her home: “I’m just going to give you a lot of food,” she says. Jinich proceeds to zip around her Chevy Chase house’s kitchen, a room instantly familiar to viewers of her hit PBS cooking show, Pati’s Mexican Table. Soon cast-iron pans are asizzle, and she hands over a platter overflowing with chicken milanese, risotto, beans, homemade salsa. “Eat!” she says.
Jinich has been surprised to find that some people who praise her recipes on social media are Trump fans. “You click their profile and they’re like ‘Build the wall! No more Mexicans!’ ” she says. In some ways, those are the people she wants to reach. “If they watch my show, they have to hear my accent. I’m showcasing the beauty of Mexico. I’m an immigrant. So take that: You’re loving a Mexican and you’re loving tacos. That’s soft power.”
The cozy space feels like a regular high-end kitchen, not a TV-show set. The program isn’t currently in production, so no studio lights or cables are in sight. But Jinich is having a busy fall. This month sees the publication of her third cookbook, Treasures of the Mexican Table. She also has a new PBS show, called La Frontera. The two-part special (with more to come) highlights life along the US/Mexico border through portrayals of artists, cooks, ranchers, and a host of immigrants who live there—not just American and Mexican but Lebanese, Syrian, Japanese, and Jewish.
Jinich’s own grandparents were European Jews who settled in Mexico after escaping pogroms and the Holocaust. She grew up in Mexico City, then moved to Dallas in 1997 with her husband, businessman Daniel Jinich. They came to DC four years later, and Jinich earned a master’s in Latin-American studies at Georgetown before getting a job at a think tank. Her side interest in food turned into a career when she started giving cooking lessons at the Mexican Cultural Institute, then got WETA onboard for a food show, which launched in 2011 and is now seen around the country.
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Mexican Chef Pati Jinich and her husband Daniel Jinich. Also, the lady relishes a beautiful married relationship with her longtime husband for more than twenty-three years now. Pati, 47, is happily married to her long-term girlfriend turned to a spouse, Daniel Jinich, who is also a Mexican.
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Daniel Jinich is blissfully married to celebrity chef and author Pati Jinich. The duo walked down the aisle on December 8, 1996, in a ceremony attended by 100-150 guests. Pati was 24 years old when she said “I Do” to her baby daddy. Pati Jinich is blessed to have a husband like Daniel Jinich. SOURCE: Instagram
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Patricia Jinich ( / ˈhinitʃ / born Patricia Drijanski, March 30, 1972) is a Mexican chef, TV personality, cookbook author, educator, and food writer. She is best known for her James Beard Award -winning and Emmy-nominated public television series Pati’s Mexican Table.
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Kriti is an author and mass communication student with over four years of experience in website content writing. She is passionate about her work. She likes reading e-magazines, interested in pop culture. Pati Jinich is a Mexican chef who runs her owns cooking show. This 48 year old chef is married and also owns the worth of $1 million.