Interviews with the women—and Gerry—from The Golden Bachelor have been eye-opening, surprising, and undeniably juicy. But they've never been as hilarious as one that starts out with an ABC publicist saying, “Edith, you have Jessica on the line, and she's ready to talk about guacamole.”
Make no mistake, I am very excited to hear all about the guacamole.
“It's pure vegetables,” Mexican-born Edith says on the phone from her home in California. “My grandma is the one who showed me the recipe, which is very simple.”
The 60-year-old vixen might not have made the lasting impression she wanted to with Gerry on The Golden Bachelor (her journey ended in week three), but her culinary skills were a big hit with the ladies from the start.
“I love to cook, so I made tacos and then I made, like, 80 enchiladas for everybody, and then I started making my guacamole,” Edith says. “Susan loves to cook too, so we were always in the kitchen.”
It was there that the season's second biggest storyline took place. If the first was the drama that went down with Kathy and Theresa, then the follow-up was Edith's guacamole versus Susan's meatballs.
No, not which one was better—which one caused Susan's, and several women's, gas.
“Susan would look at me and say, 'It's your guacamole,’” she recalls. “I was like, ‘No, it's not my guacamole. It's your meatballs.’ She's still arguing about that. I don't know, we're going to take this to the grave. But I've been making the guac for so long, and it has never caused me gas or my family. Also, I tried one of her meatballs, and it didn't give me gas.”
The debate will continue during the Women Tell All (airing Thursday, November 9), and we will get Susan's side of the story when she shares her meatball recipe with Glamour next week, but for now we needed to know one thing: How exactly does Edith prepare her guacamole, which everyone agrees is delicious?
Lucky for us, she shared the very simple—and healthy—recipe (see below), while also filling us in on a little secret: Her skin care routine is the result of some of those ingredients, straight from her garden.
“I cut my aloe vera that I have in the backyard, and put it all over my face before bed,” she reveals. “It adds moisturize and really brightens my face. And then I get a little bit of olive oil, put it through my hands, massage it over my face, or dab it around my eyes at night. Sometimes I put a small amount of avocado around my eyes too, or on my cheeks when I'm cooking. I believe that everything that you put on your face should be natural.” (So does Sandra, who reveals the secret to her glowing skin with us as well.)
That same approach applies to Edith's love life, especially as she looks back at her time with Gerry. She calls him a beautiful soul, who she still really likes and respects, but surmises that he just didn't have an attraction to her. “I wish I would've stayed longer, but it just didn't happen,” she says. “And that's okay.”
Plus, what cures heartbreak better than good-for-you food? And while Edith didn't end up with the final rose, we see a cookbook or a culinary show in her future. But first, she's sharing her famous guacamole and homemade chips recipe with Glamour, as part of our latest installment of That Thing I Always Cook.
5 golden ladies
7 avocados
4 tomatoes
Half a white onion
Cilantro (as much or little as you want)
3 serranos (long green chili peppers that are more spicy than jalapeños) “So it has a little kick only, but it's not that hot.”
Store-bought chips or make your own with regular corn tortillas (more on that below)
Chop up all the ingredients listed above, and mix into a bowl.
Add sea salt according to preference.
Cut five Guerrero corn tortillas into triangle shapes.
Apply olive oil to each triangle-cut tortilla.
Place corn tortilla cut triangles in a pan (add more olive oil if needed) and toast for seven minutes until light brown.
And then, bon appétit!
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Jessica Radloff is the Glamour senior West Coast editor and author of the NYT best-selling book The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series.