At 95, Mexican food expert Diana Kennedy is growing her own coffee and making her own tortillas
MICHOACAN, Mexico - To get to Diana Kennedy's house, outside Zitacuaro, Mexico, about 100 miles west of Mexico City, you go up a dirt road jutted with rocks, through two gates, past rock walls overhung with bougainvillea and blue plumbago, pink lilies and darting butterflies, and up a flight of stone steps to an outdoor patio that features two adobe beehive ovens and two solar stoves, one lately arrived from Spanish chef Jose Andres, who also sends them to disaster zones.
Kennedy, the British-born 95-year-old expert on regional Mexican cooking and author of almost a dozen groundbreaking cookbooks, does not live in a disaster zone but rather the small village of San Francisco Coatepec de Morelos, up a cobbled road from a 16th century Franciscan church, in an "ecological house," which she had built in the late 1970s with
