Pati Jinich - wikipedia Pati Jinich Pati Jinich ( 1972 - 03 - 30 ) March 30, 1972 ( age 45 ) Mexico City, Mexico Occupation Chef, TV Personality, Cookbook Author Years active 2007 -- present Known for Pati 's Mexican Table, public television series Website patijinich.com 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 public 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. Contents 1 Early life 2 Culinary career 3 Television 4 Cookbooks 4.1 Pati 's Mexican Table : The Secrets of Real Mexican Home Cooking 4.2 Mexican Today : New and Rediscovered Recipes for Contemporary Kitchens 5 Personal life 6 Awards and accolades 7 References 8 External links Early life 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. She met her husband, Daniel Jinich, who is also a Mexican Jew, on a blind date. They were married in Mexico City in 1996 when she was 24. Culinary career Jinich first began researching and cooking Mexican cuisine out of homesickness for her native Mexico City, when she moved to Dallas, Texas, with her husband. Soon, she was teaching Mexican cooking to friends and neighbors. At the same time, as she was writing her bachelor 's thesis, she offered to help KERA, the Dallas public TV station with a documentary on the Mexican Revolution, but it needed help with another project : the PBS series New Tastes from Texas with Chef Stephan Pyles, for which she became a production assistant. Two years later, she relocated to Washington, DC, with her husband and their first - born son, where she picked back up on her academic pursuits, earning her master 's degree from Georgetown and landing her dream job '' at a prestigious think tank, but she never stopped obsessively thinking about food and enrolled at L'Academie de Cuisine in Maryland. Jinich envisioned herself writing articles about Mexican cuisine and teaching it in her home kitchen, until she met with the executive director of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, who encouraged her to bring her cooking program to the institute. In 2007, she launched her Mexican - table series of live cooking demonstrations along with multi-course tasting dinners, which she still runs today. The classes combine Jinich 's skilled Mexican cooking with her knowledge of the country 's history and regions. Each one explores a single topic -- for example, dishes of the Mexican Revolution, a historical vanilla menu, or convent foods from colonial Mexico. Around the same time, she started her blog about Mexican cuisine, which was followed by invitations to write about food for print publications and to give talks and cooking demos for radio and TV shows. Jinich 's charisma and intelligence caught the attention of television producers. After exploring different outlets, she decided Washington, DC 's WETA - TV was the right home for Pati 's Mexican Table because of her commitment to authenticity and the independence the PBS and public - TV platform allows over the content of its shows. Television In Pati 's Mexican Table, Jinich shares authentic Mexican cooking, along with Mexico 's rich history and culture, her personal experiences and family life, and her ongoing conversations with cooks on both sides of the border. The series airs nationally in the United States on public television stations ( distributed by APT ) and on Create TV. It also airs on the Asian Food Channel in Southeast Asia, Food Network in Australia, and TLN in Canada. Season 1 premiered in 2011, and Season 2 followed in 2012. The first two seasons were produced by the Cortez Brothers, a bilingual production company based in southern California, which Jinich chose because of its familiarity with Mexico and its culture. Gordon Elliott, the Emmy - award - winning producer of ABC 's The Chew and several Food Network programs and his team at Follow Productions signed on beginning with Season 3. Together with Jinich, they changed the show 's format from a mostly kitchen - based cooking show to a combination travel and cooking show, featuring more footage of Pati in Mexico and more of her family life. Season 3 first aired in 2014 and Season 4 in 2015. Season 5 began airing in the fall of 2016. Cookbooks Pati 's Mexican Table : the Secrets of Real Mexican home cooking Jinich 's first cookbook, Pati 's Mexican Table : The Secrets of Real Mexican Home Cooking, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in March 2013. The book is based on the traditional Mexican home cooking with which Jinich grew up, with many recipes gleaned from her childhood in Mexico City. It made Amazon 's `` Best of the Year in Cookbooks '' list of 2013, the Washington Post 's `` Best Cookbooks of 2013 '' list, The Splendid Table 's `` Staff Book Picks of 2013 '' list, and Serious Eats `` Our Favorite Cookbooks of 2013 '' list. Mexican Today : New and rediscovered recipes for Contemporary Kitchens Jinich 's second cookbook, Mexican Today : New and Rediscovered Recipes for Contemporary Kitchens, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April 2016. Jinich explores both traditional and rediscovered Mexican dishes as well as reinterpretations and new takes using Mexican ingredients in this book. NPR 's Maria Godoy said, `` Mexican Today explores not just traditional fare but ( also ) the country 's evolving cuisine and the many immigrant groups who have influenced it. '' Personal life Jinich lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with her husband Daniel Jinich and their three sons. Awards and accolades Jinich was named one of the `` Top 5 Border Ambassadors '' between the U.S. and Mexico by Americas Quarterly ( 2017 ) Jinich and Pati 's Mexican Table were nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Television Program in Studio or Fixed Location ( 2017 ) Jinich was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Host ( 2016 ) Jinich and Pati 's Mexican Table were nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program ( 2016 ) Jinich was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Personality / Host ( 2016 ) Jinich and Pati 's Mexican Table were nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Television Program in Studio or Fixed Location ( 2016 ) Jinich and Pati 's Mexican Table won an Imagen Award for Best National Informational Program ( 2016 ) Jinich and Pati 's Mexican Table won two consecutive Taste Awards for Best Ethnic Program ( 2016, 2015 ) Pati 's Mexican Table was nominated for an Imagen Award for Best National Informational Program ( 2014 ) Pati 's Mexican Table was nominated for an IACP Award for Best Culinary Series ( 2014 ) The cookbook Pati 's Mexican Table was selected for the 2013 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Best in the World List. Jinich cooked at the White House for President Obama 's Cinco de Mayo Dinner ( 2014 ). Jinich was named to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History 's Kitchen Cabinet Board for the American Food History Project ( 2014 ). Jinich was named to the United Nations ' Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Chefs Corps ( 2015 ) References ^ Jump up to : NBC News, `` Award - Winning Chef Pati Jinich Touts Mexico 's Varied, Evolving Flavors '' Jump up ^ Publishers Weekly, `` Pati 's Mexican Table : The Secrets of Real Mexican Home Cooking '' Jump up ^ Booklist, `` Mexican Today : New and Rediscovered Recipes for Contemporary Kitchens '' ^ Jump up to : Washington DC Eater, `` Cooking Mexican Breakfast with Pati Jinich '' Jump up ^ Washington Post, `` Tex - Mex cooking : It 's not Mexican, and maybe that 's the point '' ^ Jump up to : The White House, Speeches & Remarks, `` Remarks by the President at Cinco de Mayo Reception '' Jump up ^ New York Times, `` A Taste of Passover, With a Mexican Accent '' ^ Jump up to : Washington Post, `` Pati Jinich : Made for TV '' ^ Jump up to : Forbes, `` From Political Analyst To Mexican Chef On PBS -- How Embracing What You Love Builds A Fabulous Career '' ^ Jump up to : Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington, `` Objects of the Month '' Jump up ^ Washington Post Express, `` A Real Spice Girl '' Jump up ^ About Pati Jinich ^ Jump up to : PBS Food, `` Pati 's Mexican Table '' Jump up ^ Asian Food Channel, `` Pati 's Mexican Table '' Jump up ^ SBS Food Network, `` Pati 's Mexican Table '' Jump up ^ TLN, `` Pati 's Mexican Table '' Jump up ^ The Georgetowner, `` Mexico Salutes ' Pati 's Mexican Table ' '' Jump up ^ Washington Post, `` Jinich flexes her muscles for season two of ' Pati 's Mexican Table ' '' Jump up ^ BusinessWire, `` Season Four of Pati 's Mexican Table Premieres on Public TV Stations Nationwide this Week '' Jump up ^ Oregonian, `` Cookbook review : ' Pati 's Mexican Table ' by Pati Jinich '' Jump up ^ Amazon, `` Best Books of 2013 : Cookbooks & Food Writing '' Jump up ^ Washington Post, `` Washington Post 's best cookbooks of 2013 '' Jump up ^ The Splendid Table, `` Staff book picks 2013 '' Jump up ^ Serious Eats, `` Our Favorite Cookbooks of 2013 '' Jump up ^ NPR The Salt, `` How Mexican Cuisine Was Doing Fusion 500 Years Ago '' Jump up ^ Americas Quarterly, `` 5 People Who Bring Mexico and the U.S. Closer Together '' Jump up ^ James Beard Foundation, The 2017 James Beard Nominees ^ Jump up to : The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, The 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy Award Nominations ^ Jump up to : James Beard Foundation, The 2016 James Beard Award Nominees Jump up ^ Imagen Foundation, `` Winners of 31st Annual Imagen Awards Announced '' Jump up ^ The Taste Awards, 6th Annual Finalists Jump up ^ The Taste Awards, 7th Annual Finalists and Honorees Jump up ^ The Imagen Foundation, Nominees for the 29th Annual Imagen Awards Announced Jump up ^ Eater, `` IACP Announces 2014 Food Writing Finalists '' Jump up ^ Gourmand International, Gourmand Awards Winners 2013 Cookbook Jump up ^ The National Museum of American History, `` National Museum of American History Convenes Kitchen Cabinet '' Jump up ^ Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, `` Chef Pati Jinich Joins Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Chef Corps '' External links Official website VIAF : 294932803 LCCN : n2013004653 ISNI : 0000 0004 0144 1991 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pati_Jinich&oldid=818226492 '' Categories : 1972 births Living people Georgetown University alumni American cookbook writers American television chefs Women cookbook writers Chefs of Mexican cuisine Mexican Jews Mexican emigrants to the United States American people of Mexican - Jewish descent Women chefs Hidden categories : Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español Edit links This page was last edited on 2 January 2018, at 09 : 42. 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Question: where does pati from pati's mexican table live
Answer: Chevy Chase, Maryland