Pinedo, Encarnación

Encarnación Pinedo (1848–1902), cookbook author, wrote the first cookbook by a Hispanic in the United States. El Cocinero Español (The Spanish Cook) is a landmark, the only contemporary record of what Californios (the original Spanish colonists in California and their descendants) ate and how they prepared it. Through the nineteenth century the Californios lost their social, political, and economic dominance to the Anglo Americans. Encarnación Pinedo deliberately attempted to keep her cultural foodways from disappearing by compiling this cookbook, printed in San Francisco in 1898.