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Photos from our recent Cooking Workshop en español

Biographical Information on Laurie Mackenzie
Laurie Mackenzie is a chef and a passionate scholar of Latin American cuisines. She studied Latin American Studies at UC Santa Cruz and attended the Cordon Bleu Culinary School in Paris. She has worked at the Hayes Street Grill and Restaurant Carta in San Francisco and was the chef at the Headland's Center for the Arts in the Marin Headlands. She was the Kitchen and Program Manager at La Cocina Community Kitchen, a non-profit food business incubator for low-income and immigrant women for 2 years. In 1987, Laurie lived in Nicaragua for 6 months, cooking with women in their homes, in restaurants and in marketplaces. She travels frequently to Mexico and has led culinary tours to Oaxaca and of San Francisco's vibrant Mission District. She studied with Rick Bayless at the Culinary Institute of America. Laurie taught students at Cesar Chavez Elementary School the joys of tasting and cooking with organic, seasonal produce with the Market Cooking for Kids program and has taught numerous classes on Mexican cooking at Sur la Table, San Francisco City College and Encantada Gallery of Fine Arts. She has been a Mission district resident for 15 years.