Pati's Mexican Table

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Pati's Mexican Table

In Mexico, Pati visits one of Sonora's most popular vacation destinations, Puerto Penasco, where some of the town's best chefs take her on a tour of the local market and then invite her for a feast featuring their favourite recipes from the region. Later, she prepares three uniq...

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Season 9
Pati prepares a couple of recipes inspired by her travels to the coast of the Sea of Cortez, in Sonora, Mexico: shrimp tacos bravos and a seafood tostadas piled high and layered with salsa negra, apple chiltipin salsa and salsa bandera with jicama and pineapple.
Pati spends a day in her kitchen with her son, Sami, cooking some recipes inspired by her travels in Sonora, Mexico. She cooks three recipes she knows Sami will love: beef chimis, rice lentils with crispy onions, and a sweet and savoury dessert to complete the experience. In Sonora, Pati visits two famous family-run street...
Wheat and meat are two staples of Sonoran cuisine, and Pati shows her take on a classic recipe that uses both, a carne con chile burrito. In Sonora, she tours one of Hermosillo’s oldest flour mills and gets a lesson on making coyotas, a traditional dessert, at a local bakery. Then, Pati shows us how to make coyotas at home.
Pati spends some time with her boys cooking up a classic Sonoran-style meal. First, she teaches them the basics of a true Sonoran tradition - carne asada.
Pati experiences important Sonoran culinary traditions. On the coast in Bahia Kino, local fishermen receive ‘the blessing’ from a woman from the Seri tribe before heading out on the water to catch giant sea scallops.
Pati spends a day in Sonora’s capital, Hermosillo, visiting some of the city’s best culinary destinations. Pati experiences the full spectrum of the Hermosillo’s food scene.
Pati heads to Tucson, Arizona to meet one of the best bakers in America, Don Guerra of Barrio Bakery. After sampling his bread and getting the secrets to his process, Pati travels across to border to Sonora, Mexico to get an up-close look at the incredible Sonoran wheat that Don uses in his bread.
Season 8
Pati travels north of the border to Tucson, Arizona, a city that claims to have the best 23 miles of Mexican food anywhere in the world. She visits restaurants and meets local chefs, trying to get a deeper understanding of what Mexican food in America truly is. What happens to recipes when they travel across the border? Ho...
Known as 'Mexico's Bread Basket,' Sinaloa produces about 40 percent of the meat and produce consumed in all of Mexico. Pati travels the countryside - to farms and fisheries.
Pati visits home cooks and iconic restaurants all over Sinaloa, sampling some of the state's most iconic dishes. Dishes explored include fish chicharron with a master fish butcher in Maviri, to a rustic pan de mujer with a family of bread makers in Altata, to one of the most famous restaurants in Mazatlan - Cuchupetas - be...
Celestino Gasca didn't exist until about 30 years ago. Now, this rural seaside town is becoming a vacation destination due to its magnificent untouched beaches and idyllic surfing conditions. Pati meets with local restaurant owner Carmen and helps her cook one of Sinaloa's most iconic recipes - pescado zarandeado. Then, sh...
Founded in 1594, Mocorito is a quiet, colourful colonial town known for one of Sinaloa’s most beloved recipes - a slow-simmered pork dish called chilorio. Pati visits the home of Victoria Gonzalez, a cook known for having one of the best chilorio recipes in town. Then Pati goes with Victoria to visit her sister, Fabiola, w...
Originally conceived as a trade route linking cattle markets in Kansas City to the nearest Pacific Ocean port in Mexico, which is Topolobampo. Today the El Chepe railway is a historic passenger train that connects the city of Los Mochis to Chihuaha with stunning views of the Sinaloa countryside and the Copper Canyon. In th...
Pati travels into the mountains of Sinaloa to the tiny village of Jinetes - a place that appears to be stuck in time. The small population of barely 100 people live on whatever the land gives them. Miles and miles removed from civilization, they've managed to preserve their customs and recipes for generations. Pati is the ...
Pati travels to the northern part of Sinaloa and the town of El Fuerte, one of Mexico's 'Pueblos Magicos' or magic towns. El Fuerte was founded in 1563 right at a bend in the Fuerte river. Now a quiet colonial town, for over 300 years it was the most important commercial and agricultural center in northwest Mexico. After a...
Sinaloa’s premiere resort town claims 13-miles of beautiful Pacific coastline with boardwalks and pristine streets lined with brightly-coloured homes and some of the best restaurants in Mexico. But Mazatlan has overcome a troubling and complicated history to become Sinaloa's number one destination. Pati meets up with two c...
Pati heads to Los Mochis - a coastal city in the northern region of Sinaloa that was founded by Americans in the late 1800s. After learning its unique history and getting an incredibly delicious tour of the street food, Pati returns to her kitchen to create two mouth-watering taco recipes that take her right back to those ...
Pati welcomes dear friend and fellow public television chef and host Vivian Howard to her kitchen. In this south of the border meets southern food experience, Pati and Vivian will cook a couple of their classic recipes for each other, looking for connections in cultures and food.
Altata is a small town on the coast of Sinaloa, about 45 miles west of Culiacsn with stretches of beautiful beaches and delicious seafood at your fingertips. Pati visits with locals and chefs as this town embarks on a journey to reinvent itself from sleepy fishing village to first class tourist destination. Pati takes a bo...
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