As a girl growing up in San Bernadino, California, Kathy DÃaz, says she wasn’t one of those kids who knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. Instead, she says, too many subjects interested her and she had trouble focusing on just one.
After majoring in Latin American studies at UCLA, she says she “stumbled into†journalism. She spent most of her career as an editor for national publications, including Hispanic and Mexico Events and Destinations magazines. Today, now 61, DÃaz has been co-hosting a salsa radio show in Los Angeles, every Saturday since 1986, and recently, she co-authored her first cookbook called Sabores Yucatecos: A Culinary Tour of the Yucatan.