DIANA KENNEDY: NOTHING FANCY (2020)
Diana roasts coffee the old-fashioned way in her kitchen in Michoacan, Mexico in 2018.
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy is a feature documentary about notoriously opinionated British cookbook author Diana Kennedy, widely considered the world’s foremost expert on Mexican cuisine. The author of nine cookbooks, Diana lived on an ecological ranch in the mountains of Michoacan for nearly sixty years researching the cuisines and botany of Mexico, while growing her own coffee, vegetables, corn and wheat and sunbathing naked to opera music. The film won a Special Jury Award for Storytelling at SXSW in 2019 and was distributed on Apple TV and Amazon Prime in 2020. Diana died peacefully at home in Mexico in 2021. She was 99.
Diana toasts pasilla seeds for mole in her kitchen, 2018.
“I’m not the Julia Child of Mexico. I’m the Mick Jagger of Mexican cooking.”
Diana walks through her garden at Quinta Diana, 2017.