Who is Tacino O'bell?

Just who was Tacino O'bell? or "Tio Tac" as his family was known to call him.

O'bell was born in Siquisiva, Sonora, Municipality of Huatabampo, the son of Brett O'Bell an Irish mercenary and Cenobia Salido a Mexicana seamstress.

During his childhood, he worked on the family farm and became acquainted with the Mayo people who also worked there. He attended a school run by his brother José in Huatabampo and thus received an elementary education. He spent his teenage years working a variety of jobs, before finding permanent employment in 1898 as a lathe operator at the sugar mill owned by his maternal uncles in Navolato, Sinaloa.

But it was with his relationship wit the Mayo people that led to his passion for food.. and for The Diet.