So, "Fiesta at Rick's" is really that book. It's the stuff that I do when I bring people together. And I decided to call it -- not "Mexican Fiesta ," -- but "Fiesta at Rick's", because I love to have people over. And even though I'm in the restaurant business and I am hosting thousands of people every
If I now tell you here, please point to the sugar, please point to the eggs, you can't. You put him in a Ford Fiesta or in a Bentley.
style but both of us can actually tell three stories by adapting to our individual style and that's that I think comes through quite a lot in fiestar's where you emphasize reflecting on ourselves instead of how we are most comfortable and then kind of take back
week through our restaurant that are celebrating all different kinds of things, that's not my fiesta . That's their fiesta . And I feel honored to be able to create a place where people can have their fiestas . But on the weekends, I want to have mine. And so, I have people over almost every weekend, sometimes casual, sometimes more elaborate or involved. But I wanted to share the kinds of things
And so, after I had, I had talked about that in the introduction to "Mexican Every Day", I, I decided that what I really need to do is write the book for that. So, "Fiesta at Rick's" is really that book. It's the stuff that I do when I bring people together. And I decided to call it -- not "Mexican Fiesta ," -- but "Fiesta at Rick's", because I love to have people over.
work, whatever kind of grabs me. This shot was taken at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta , which is the world's largest balloon fiesta . There's like thousands of balloons taking off every day. And I had seen a shot somewhat like this with some figures, you know, on the outside of the balloon.
And I feel like these conversations, we're very familiar as Latino people. You know, we gather around for la fiesta , and we gather around .. And it's time that the men specifically start taking time to talk about these things because it's not even, like,
there's all these different things that they're celebrating at different times. And what I loved when I was living in Mexico later in my twenties was that every season brought some new special dish that was celebrated as part of one of these big fiestas -- they may be town fiestas , they may be people's birthdays, they may be something to do with the church calendar -- but in any case, they were something that was sparked by some great food that usually was very seasonal, very local.
She also served on the planning commission for the city of San Diego, is now a member of the Pacific Beach planning group-- Acting locally. CARRIE D'ASCOLI: And the president of the Fiesta Island Dog Owners. So welcome. Thank you.
Les daba igual, les encantaban las paellas, todo es felicidad. Luego nos ponía bien de vino para que nos guste más, entonces luego hacíamos una fiesta . Venía una vieja amiga, animaba, hacíamos como, un poco juerga española, de ahí lo de Samantha de España.
This was for Patagonia, a client just down the way. And living in New Mexico, I've shot at the Balloon Fiesta a few times, and I've gotten a few decent images. Little landscapes here and there.
And you sit around the table all afternoon. And you enjoy the people that you care about. And every weekend is a, a, a fiesta day, basically. There's some time on, in that weekend where you bring people together. And there's always some kind of special food that's made for that. Maybe it takes a little more time to make.
And even though I'm in the restaurant business and I am hosting thousands of people every week through our restaurant that are celebrating all different kinds of things, that's not my fiesta . That's their fiesta . And I feel honored to be able to create a place where people can have their fiestas . But on the weekends, I want to have mine.
off, you know, that's a shot every few seconds as the strobe recycles. day after a long day of climbing, the Balloon Fiesta again, some of the mountain bikers, surfing.
and that was sharing food with people around the table. Olivia Wu: And, and it's true. The Fiestas at Rick's are wonderful. Rick Bayless: We've shared a lot of them through the years.
Olivia Wu: I don't need to say a whole lot about Rick. You know about him. Many a James Bear Awards -- Chef of the Year, Restaurant of the Year, Humanitarian of the Year -- so many, so many awards. But I do want to say that "Fiesta at Rick's" has been for five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
wanted to just focus on that. I wanted to say sort of, "These are the way that I integrate things in, in my life on an everyday basis." I eat simply during the week. And what I learned in Mexico is that, on the weekends, it's the fiesta . And you, you eat stuff you would never eat during the week. And you put more time in it.
Yo hice una encuesta con mis estudiantes en el medio de la pandemia, ¿no? Pensando que seguramente haberse perdido graduaciones, haberse perdido las oportunidades de socializar, las fiestas , ¿no? Estarían todos deprimidos, pero hice la encuesta y les pregunté, ¿qué nivel de optimismo tienen ustedes sobre el futuro hoy en día?
Hay guerras. La gente no hace más que-- hay que salir. Todos han sido amigos, familiares, acción sociales, fiestas solidarias y personas como todos vosotros que confían, ven que realmente la solución está allí.
Bueno, en casa, mi hija aprendió a tocar la guitarra con los tutoriales. O, pues con 14, 15 años, que eran fiestas en el pueblo y bajaba y decía, aita, ¿y a qué hora puedo llegar a casa?