She also joked that she’s gone from being a notable food star to being the mother of rising Food Network star Aarón Sanchez. With that, it became clear that her indomitable spirit and sense of humor are solidly intact, despite the Parkinson’s. It’s going to take a lot more than illness to knock down the woman who in the early 1980s loaded up her station wagon and made her way from the Mexican border to New York with young sons in tow.
