Bon Appetit’s Rick

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Bon Appetit is one of the most — if not the most — prestigious food publications in the United States. Like all successful businesses nowadays, they have extended their traditional magazine-based content to Youtube.

The video above is one of chef Rick Martinez’s recipes. Rick is amazing in and of himself, but it’s his authentic Mexican recipes that I love to watch the most. More than any of the other Bon Appetit chefs, when I see a Rick recipe, I watch and salivate and pretend I’ll one day make those recipes (but, let’s be honest, probably won’t).

Like the tamale video by Eater that I previously posted about, Rick gives almost all of the credit for his recipes to his mom — these are family recipes that he grew up enjoying. And that’s what I love and respect so much about Rick and about Bon Appetit in general: this magazine is as prestigious as prestigious gets, and it promotes authentic Mexican recipes made by a man who was raised by Mexican immigrants in a way that not many other highly-regarded food publications do.

I embedded Chili Colorado here because I had personally never heard of it before watching this video but, afterwards, I recommend you watch his Pupusas, Pozole Verde, and Tamales recipe videos. And then watch his Thanksgiving stuffing video — he shows fellow chef Chris Morocco that Mexican-style stuffing is the superior. Catch me making cornbread and jalapeno stuffing when I host Thanksgiving in ten years.