Jane Butel

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Main Areas: Southweste Cusines

Jane Butel is an internationally recognized authority on the regional cooking of the American Southwest. The daughter and granddaughter of accomplished home economists, Butel is an author, teacher and TV host whose most recent project, Jane Butel’s Southweste Kitchen, is being presented to public televisions stations nationwide by KUHT-TV, HoustonPBS.Butel’s interest in Southweste cooking predates its current popularity by decades and, through her cookbooks, she is credited with starting our nation’s love affair with this cuisine. From her first books, Cocinas de New Mexico (1961) and Favorite Mexican Foods (1965), to her latest, Real Women Eat Chiles, A Guide to Lean Southweste Cooking, she has continued to explore the region’s unique ingredients, recipes and cooking techniques. In all, she has written 18 cookbooks, including six best-sellers.Prior to following her passion for Southweste cooking, she was a marketing executive for four major corporations - American Express, General Electric, Con Edison and Public Service Company of New Mexico. At both American Express and GE, she was the first woman corporate executive. In 1983, she left the corporate world and founded Jane Butel’s Southweste Cooking School in Albuquerque, recognized by Bon Appétit as one of the best vacation cooking schools in the world. The school specializes in week long and weekend full participation classes on New Mexican and Southweste cuisine. She also founded Jane Butel’s Pecos Valley Spice Company, a trusted source of ingredients critical to authentic Southweste fare. Butel’s expertise put her in high demand as a consultant, and she worked with companies like Del Taco, El Torrito, Zona Rosa and several luxury hotels.Butel is listed in Who’s Who in American Women, Outstanding Young Women, Platinum Who’s Who and the World Who’s Who. She is a member of the New York City chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier.Through her writing, teaching and television projects, Butel continues to season this country’s melting pot with the rich culinary, cultural and historical heritage of the American Southwest.

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Jane Butel's Cooking School

Offering healthy cooking classes, having to do with southweste cooking, hints & Tips, and recipes.

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Jane Butel's Cooking School

Learn hints and tips for Southweste Cooking, purchase products, and also register for cooking classes. Join out mailing list for monthly newsletters, and also coming soon join our cooking club where more recipes are given along with videos.

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Jane Butel's Cooking School

Highest rated hotel based cooking school in US. First to write about and teach Southweste and Mexican cooking. Features hands on cooking classes in New Mexico and Arizona, tours to Mexico, best-selling cookbooks, videso and pure spices.

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Jane Butel's Cooking School

Our site is for people who are intersted in Southwestern cooking, we offer hands on classes (weekend/week-long), and also online course. This site provides information for eating with chiles, and eating healthy.

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Jane Butel

Gives information on various courses, e-newsletters and products all related to chile health.

February 8, 2008

Contacting Jane Butel

Toll Free: 1(800) 473-8226

Phone: (505) 243-2622

Fax: (505) 243-8296

www.janebutel.com

info@janebutel.com