What’s in Enrique Olvera’s Fridge?
Certainly not ketchup
By Carrie Solomon and Adrian Moore
This Q&A with Enrique Olvera is an excerpt from Chefs’ Fridges: More Than 35 World-Renowned Cooks Reveal What They Eat at Home, released in May and the second book from the authors, following Inside Chefs’ Fridges, Europe.
Heated: Are you always so healthy?
Enrique Olvera: We don’t eat meat at home, only outside. So our home is pretty much vegetarian.
There’s no ketchup. Why?
Here we don’t eat ketchup. Everything is salsa. I don’t really know what we would put it in.
Is that a prickly pear?
Yes, that’s a chayote; we eat them either like that or boiled. We eat them with tacos. We eat everything with tacos. It’s the way of eating more than a dish. We never plate tacos. Since I was a kid, we basically have tortillas like this — we’ll have some sort of stew and serve it with tortillas.
What would people never find in your refrigerator?
We would never have American cheese slices or leftover pizza. We don’t have milk, though we do have cheese. No sodas.
What about tomatoes?
