Topic: Rancho La Puerta Llc

How to Cook Like a Spa Chef

Spa resorts and destinations generally offer a wide selection of healthy cuisine. Deborah Szekely, who, with her late husband, founded North America's first fitness spa Rancho la Puerta in Tecate, Mexico 66 years ago, reports that the demand for cooking classes ...

A Cooking Adventure at a Mexico Spa

Novelist Vendela Vida liked eating healthy but had no idea how to cook that way-or any way, for that matter. But a visit to the new cooking school at Mexico's celebrated Rancho La Puerta spa turned into a culinary epiphany. I ...

fresh berries with ricotta cream

Make this dessert, from Jesus Gonzalez, creative chef at Rancho La Puerta. Makes 4 servings Berry sauce 1 cup strawberries 1/4 cup unfiltered, unsweetened apple juice Ricotta cream 2 cups reduced-fat ricotta (1 gram fat per ounce) 2 teaspoons finely grated ...