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Since winning the competition thomasina has gone on to open a successful chain of mexican restaurants called wahaca and presented some really interesting cooking shows on tv. In her show mexican food made simple, thomasina cooks up delicious and authentic mexican recipes. Nov 24, 2011 after returning to london and winning bbc2s masterchef in 2005, thomasina opened the mexican street food cantina, wahaca. Thomasina went to mexico when she was 18 and nine years later went back to run a cocktail bar in mexico city. Mexican food made simple by miers, thomasina hardback book the cheap fast free. The best mexican cookbooks london evening standard. Six years, 11 restaurants, two books and a television series mexican food made simple later and it looks like tommi was right. Thomasina miers has books on goodreads with 1572 ratings. Thomasina miers has just gone back to work after seven months on maternity leave following the birth of her first child, tatiana. She is the coeditor of soup kitchen and the author of cook, wild gourmets, mexican food made simple, wahaca mexican food at home and chilli notes. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading mexican food made simple. Lightly dryroast the cumin seeds in a small frying pan for a minute or so to release their flavour, then grind to a powder. Jul 11, 20 six years, 11 restaurants, two books and a television series mexican food made simple later and it looks like tommi was right. How thomasina miers changed the face of mexican food.