# María Luisa García

> María Luisa García Sánchez 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, 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  in 1982. Her other best known works include Platos típicos de Asturias, released in 1971, and her collaboration with other chefs on El libro de oro de la cocina española, an eight volume encyclopedia of Spanish cuisine.

*Spanish chef*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/maria-luisa-garcia

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Chef
- **Category:** Chefs
- **Country:** Spain
- **Born:** 1919-07-07
- **Died:** 2019-10-12
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

María Luisa García Sánchez 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, 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  in 1982. Her other best known works include Platos típicos de Asturias, released in 1971, and her collaboration with other chefs on El libro de oro de la cocina española, an eight volume encyclopedia of Spanish cuisine.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 36.5 / 100
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- **Attention shift:** 35.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 20.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 53.0 / 100

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