It’s not easy to be a “woman chef” in Mexico, and yet Pilar Cabrera runs “La Olla”, a restaurant that has earned itself a fine reputation well beyond its borders.
After spending a while in exile in Mexico, Pilar decided to return to her birth town of Oaxaca, to concoct highly colourful dishes. Some of the ingredients she uses were already grown 7,000 years ago by the Zapotecs.
