Maria Delgado
Elementary School Principal
Maria runs a school of 600 children and a kitchen of 1,200 recipes. Both, she says, are about feeding people well.
“A principal is mostly a person who pulls up chairs.”
Two kitchens
Maria collects cookbooks the way other people collect stamps. There are 1,247 of them in her home, organized first by region, then by decade, then — quietly — by how much she loves them.
Fast Facts
Role
Elementary School Principal
Country
Guadalajara, Mexico
Years in education
28
Passion
Vintage cookbook collecting
Favorite quote
Educar es amar dos veces.
Education
EdD Educational Leadership, UNAM
Awards
Latin American School Leader of the Year, 2020
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