Cuchara Mía’s Secret Ingredient
Mexican up-&-coming culinary star Yudit Camacho takes us into her family kitchen and shares her favorite recipe
In our journey through Mexico, we’ve had the chance to discover artisans and artists across disciplines and industries, which gives us an insider view of the country, its culture, natural treasures, and people. It is during this whirlwind of exploration that we met Yudit Camacho, an incredible chef-turned-culinary star hailing from Sinaloa state.
When I try to imagine Yudit as a child, I see a young girl with dark, piercing eyes following her mother’s every movement with attentiveness and curiosity — stirring a soup, kneading some dough, adding a hint of spices, cracking an egg with the expert flicker of a wrist.
The only girl and eldest of her siblings, Yudit grew up bound by a strong sense of camaraderie with her mother. When she was only a few years old, her mother put Yudit on her small children’s tower against the kitchen counter and told her to watch what she was doing. She put a spoon — cuchara in Spanish — in her hand, and Yudit’s love story with food began.
