About: María Luisa García

María Luisa García Sánchez (7 July 1919 – 12 October 2019) was a Spanish Asturian chef, cookbook author and leading expert on Asturian cuisine and the culinary traditions of Asturias. Her debut Asturian cookbook, El arte de cocinar (The Art of Cooking), first published in 1970, sold half a million copies and became ubiquitous in home kitchens throughout Asturias. It remains the best selling Asturian cookbook in history. She published a second part of her landmark cookbook, El arte de cocinar (parte 2) in 1982. Her other best known works include Platos típicos de Asturias (Typical Dishes of Asturias), released in 1971, and her collaboration with other chefs on El libro de oro de la cocina española (The Golden Book of Spanish Cuisine), an eight volume encyclopedia of Spanish cuisine.