Before his trip, Eitan meets Mexico City native, Chef Pati Jinich, at her home kitchen in Chevy Chase, Maryland where they make Gefilte Fish a la Veracruzana, a traditional family dish representative of Pati’s family history – one that blends her Eastern European ancestral roots with her native Mexican ones. Pati encourages Eitan to head to CDMX to fully unpack the Jewish-Mexican fusion food story there. After cooking, Pati and Eitan Facetime Pati’s sister, Karen who owns a restaurant in Mexico City called Niddo.
