Perfect produce, lots of lime, and just the right amount of spice enliven simple summer recipes from chef Gabriela Cámara. Here, Cámara gives us three easy recipes that embody her chile-spiked, acid-tinged, seasonal approach to cooking. Compared to those in many other chef-authored cookbooks, the recipes here are strikingly simple, primarily built around super-fresh produce, seafood, and exacting technique.

Amplify its flavor by adding a balanced combination of salt, chile heat, and acid. That partnership appears to be effectively over, according to Cámara’s Instagram feed.

. Peak-season produce has a natural sweetness to it that you don't want to mask. The 360-plus-pager is a masterpiece of personal storytelling, colorful photography, and all the recipes you could ask for (yes, now you too can make The Tuna Tostada and two-toned grilled snapper). Cámara says, “This is a super-simple salad, made to show off the season’s freshest asparagus and either zucchini or yellow squash (or both) that are young and tender enough to be enjoyed raw. Mexican-Italian chef (and Contramar owner) Gabriela Cámara’s first cookbook, My Mexico City Kitchen.

Any one of these dishes could easily be made on a weeknight, or, if served together, would make a fine summer seafood feast. May 20, 2019 "Even pristine seafood can taste a little dull on its own," says Cámara. Cooking advice that works. Get the recipe for Contramar’s Red and Green Grilled Snapper: Contramar’s Red and Green Grilled Snapper, Gabriela Cámara's “My Mexico City Kitchen,” $25 on Amazon. Copyright © 2020 The Dallas Morning News. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

You can find Gabriela Cámara on Instagram and Twitter.

Gabriela Cámara is a Mexican chef, restaurant owner, and author.Born in Chihuahua City, Cámara grew up in Tepoztlán.

But Orozco found the collaborative relationship between him and Koslow “never happened.”. I wasn't really nailing it, but that was a great excuse to just keep messing around. Can't find a good source for the pleasantly pungent Mexican herb epazote? 2,153 Likes, 392 Comments - Gabriela Cámara (@gabrielacamara) on Instagram: “Proud to be included in this 2020 #TIME100 list. Reprinted with permission from My Mexico City Kitchen: Recipes and Convictions by Gabriela Camara and Malena Watrous, copyright © 2019. She has about 26.9 k followers on her Instagram page. Restaurant recommendations you trust. "Acid literally excites the palate. Tras 22 años, aún es favorito para disfrutar de unas tostadas de atún o un pescado a la talla en plena ciudad.

And it is. For a few months, The Cut’s editor in chief traded shots of mini purses and bright-red Valentino Birkenstocks for a whole lot of tortilla content. All Rights Reserved. Seasonal means simple. Grow your own with seeds from seedsavers.com ($3.50/packet of 250 seeds). I like the combination of green zucchini and yellow squash on the plate, but it’s not essential to use the two.

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Instead the Koslow-Cámara partnership is over.

In the Bay Area, Cámara's deft touch with hyper-seasonal products like local abalone and puntarelle at Cala earned the respect of diners and a certain market-driven minimalist named Alice Waters.

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Stella dubbed it the cookbook of the season, and said she’d be practicing her Tortilla Technique ™ until she got it right. © 2020 Condé Nast.

Gabriela Cámara, AMLO’s Top Chef Her profile rose this year thanks to four projects: a restaurant, a cookbook, a Netflix documentary, and her role … She makes them seem very achievable, like something that you can whip up on a weeknight. In an Instagram post dated July 19, 2020, Cámara stated the following: “We’ve been asked if we’d recently opened a Contramar abroad, and I need to say ABSOLUTELY NOT. The inspo? Healthyish spoke of the challenging label as a “power duo,” and described numerous delays, Cámara’s increased responsibilities in Mexico City, and her ultimate departure from California in 2019 to Mexico City. Many, many iterations later, we got in touch with Stella, who claims she’s “not a food person” (reader, she’s very much a food person), to find out what about Gabriela’s cookbook had her spending all summer with a fire engine–red tortilla press in hand. What is important is that you buy the smallest and most delicate zucchini or squash that you can find.

If you can't get Mexican limes, use whatever limes you have ac­cess to, then add a little bit of white vinegar to give your dishes more zip.

Ciudad de México - La chef mexicana Gabriela Cámara fue nombrada como una de las 100 personas más influyentes por la revista Time.La nómina se publicó este martes 22 de septiembre. Copyright © 2020 Sunset Publishing Corporation. My favorite cookbooks are the ones that come out of that desire. I read them and read them and read them without ever feeling like I need to cook from them.

I use Mexican limes in my restaurants, which are more acidic and less sweet and flo­ral than Persian or Key limes," says Cámara. But hers has a lived-in quality that I can relate to. 16.2k Followers, 1,208 Following, 1,000 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (@cabezoncamara) "But it's Mexican in that it relies on pronounced acidity and a variety of different chiles." But first she’ll return home to Mexico to advise the country’s president on food policy. It’s restaurant food, but it isn’t “restaurant food.” Somehow though, after all summer reading her book, all I really wanted to cook were the tortillas. Ad Choices, She owes it all to chef Gabriela Cámara’s first cookbook, “My Mexico City Kitchen.”. The inspo? In April, a few days after Donald Trump tweeted out a threat to close the U.S. border with Mexico, Jessica Koslow and Gabriela Cámara cooked dinner together for the first time. "Use just enough to accentuate ingredi­ents without overpowering them."

Cámara holds ownership in Mexico City restaurants Capicúa, Barricuda Diner, and MeroToro.

In an Eater investigation from last Thursday, former Sqirl catering chef Balo Orozco — one of the creative forces at Onda — believed that all menu decisions would be handled as a team.

I got a lot of tips—it seems nearly everybody on Instagram has an opinion.

If I have five minutes, I'll just sit down and flip through it. In the comments, inquiring folks asked Cámara if she was still involved with Onda, to which she wrote, “not anymore!” though the chef also replied “ya no esta ni abierto (it’s not even open)” to another comment asking about her involvement in the Santa Monica restaurant.