Food is both an art and a science. The way food is presented on a plate can already stimulate our brains and signal that what we are going to eat will be delicious. This visual aspect of food can be expressed through plating. And Martha Ortiz is using this to empower women and make her native Mexican cuisine known to the world.
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Ortiz’s culinary ascent is anything but straightforward. She encountered roadblocks in her earlier endeavors but didn’t admit defeat, instead, she rose to her feet to challenge a system with a male bias.
Equipped with a Political Science degree, Ortiz looks to contextualize each of her dishes with a narrative. “Fairy tale stories” she explains, with fragments that evoke feminine traits that she wants to share with the world.
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Source: neatorama