Rosies Cooking

It is impossible to encapsulate all that Rosie is in one word, but we can sum it up as a wealth of knowledge in a suit of an exceptional woman. Mother, wife and recently grandmother; as a good Mexican she has dedicated her life to the well being of her family and the loved ones around her, she comes from El Mapache, municipality of Tomatlán in the south of Jalisco.

She grew up there until the age of 12 when she moved to Puerto Vallarta to continue her education. In her hometown, she grew up with her grandmother from the age of 3 until the age of 12, since her mother had to go to the city to work in order to provide for her and her siblings. During this time Rosie acquired a lot of knowledge from her grandmother named Hermelinda, who had a lot of knowledge of plants and their healing properties as well as ancestral recipes prepared without electricity or modern tools as we have today. To help her mother with the expenses that going to school implied, she worked in the old Municipal Market “Rio Cuale” of Puerto Vallarta, located in the center of the city. This market in its most glorious years was a booming market, with many stalls selling fruits, vegetables, butcher’s shop, cheese, among other things. You could find everything fresh, even freshly prepared food because on the second floor there were several small local food restaurants, 2 of them owned by Rosie’s aunts where she worked at Café Doña Julia and Restaurant La Marina from the age of 12 until she was 28 years old.