Saturday, May 15, 2010

WaHaCa... Signs of the Thames

We met Thomasina Miers over pavo reino blanco at Christamas dinner this past year. James and Alexandra Brown's cook is the woman they met over the road. She has a cocina economica but it has no sign outside and the front door is shut. It's a secret place known only to the neighborhood. The turkey had been delivered live on the 23rd and kept in the garden of James' studio. Thomasina was here in Yucatan and Oaxaca with the chefs from her trendy Mexican eateries in London called Wahaca . It seems she had won a TV cooking competition (Masterchef) some years ago and Alexandra's Mexican brother-in-law had given her a call. My friend Kathleen Baird-Murray had told me about Wahaca when she was here for day of the dead and we were lamenting the fact that there was no good Mexican food in Merida. Now I suspect there will be a hint of habanero drifting down the Thames...

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