Mexico is the source of many ingredients cooks have long taken for granted, but it took the popularisation of things such as cactus and squash blossom for the world to see Mexican cuisine as distinct and truly great.
Friday, Dec. 18, 2020
Photo by Paula Maturana
Viewers who were here in the late 1990s and early 2000s will remember Barbara Fenzl as the host of “Savor the Southwest” and a long list of specials produced by Arizona PBS. But for Barbara and her husband Terry, the Arizona PBS story goes back much farther.
“We’ve pretty much grown up with Channel Eight,” Barbara said. After falling in love with Arizona during a stay between Terry’s second and third years of law school, the couple moved here in 1969, when the station was only eight years old itself. They enjoyed watching Julia Child and other cooking shows, as well as the premiere Masterpiece drama, “Upstairs Downstairs.”