Jenny Martinez
Jenny Martinez shares Mexican family recipes through cooking videos, her cookbook My Mexican Mesa, Y Listo!, and collections for the kitchen and home.
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Known for
S&S/Simon Element
JCPenney
Good Morning AmericaOverview
- From
- Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico
- Grew up
- Moved to Los Angeles at age four
- Work
- Cooking creator, cookbook author and home collection collaborator
- Breakout
- Her mother’s birria recipe on TikTok
- First cookbook
- My Mexican Mesa, Y Listo! (2024)
Mini bio
Family recipes first.
Jenny was born in Mexico and moved to Los Angeles at four. Her cooking grew from the recipes passed down through her family. In a 2026 interview, she recalled helping her mother in the kitchen at eight and cooking independently by thirteen.
From the day job to TikTok.
Before cooking became her career, Jenny worked in forklift sales. Her daughter encouraged her to try TikTok and filmed her making her mother’s birria during the pandemic. The video reached a million viewers overnight, and a follow-up used the leftovers for quesadillas. Fans found familiar family food in her Spanish-and-English cooking videos.
Recipes you can keep.
Her first cookbook, My Mexican Mesa, Y Listo!, came out on April 30, 2024. Its 100 recipes span breakfast, tacos, tamales, salsas, desserts and cocktails. The publisher lists it as a national bestseller. Jenny has also brought her cooking and sense of home to product collaborations, including an expanded JCPenney home collection in 2026.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
Home and kitchen
- 2026Jenny Martinez Home Collection expansionCollaborator with JCPenney
- 2025Mesa Mia food rangeCreator, with Xcel Brands and TSC Product Lab
Television
- 2025Good Morning America: Baja-style shrimp tacosGuest cook
- 2024Good Morning America: My Mexican Mesa, Y Listo!Cookbook guest
Awards
Quotes
I wanted people to fall in love with cooking.Jenny Martinez, My Mexican Mesa, Y Listo!
In her cookbook introduction, Jenny explains the purpose behind her approachable Mexican cooking videos.
Trivia
- Before becoming a full-time cooking creator, she sold forklifts.
- Her family took space from their main bedroom to make their kitchen bigger.
- She says her daughter Cindy learned to make flour tortillas before she did.
- Her familiar sign-off, “y listo and enjoy,” also inspired her cookbook’s title.
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