In 1892 piedad yorba hardly looked like a future restaurant star: Los Angeles's first female celebrity chef and proprietress of the nation's first upscale Mexican restaurant, a place so wildly popular that a town grew up around it and took the restaurant's name. That was the last thing anyone expected. In 1892 Piedad was merely a twenty-eight-year-old widow with a famous surname, though she had scarcely anything to show for it. Her great-grandfather, Jose Antonio Yorba, had been one of the first Spanish settlers in California; he ended up one of its largest landowners. In 1810 the Spanish Crown had granted him the sixty-three-thousand-acre Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, which comprised much of present-day Los Angeles and Orange counties. After California became a state in 1848, many heirs to California land grants lost their property, either because of Yankee sharpers or unfriendly courts. But not Jose Antonio's successors. Although many of the land grants had never been thoroughly surveyed, the Yorbas held clear title to their land and were able to keep it all.
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机译：1892年，皮耶达·约巴（Piedad yorba）几乎没有像未来的餐厅明星：洛杉矶的第一位女明星厨师和全美第一家高档墨西哥餐厅的女主人，这个地方非常受欢迎，以致周围有一个小镇长大并以餐厅的名字命名。那是所有人期望的最后一件事。在1892年，皮亚达（Piedad）只是一个28岁的寡妇，有一个著名的姓氏，尽管她几乎没有什么可展示的。她的曾祖父何塞·安东尼奥·约巴（Jose Antonio Yorba）是加利福尼亚州最早的西班牙定居者之一。他成为了最大的土地所有者之一。 1810年，西班牙王室授予他六十三万英亩的圣安娜安娜牧场圣地亚哥（Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana），其中包括当今的洛杉矶和奥兰治县。在1848年加利福尼亚州成为州之后，由于扬基锐利者或法院不友好，许多加利福尼亚州土地赠与的继承人失去了财产。但不是何塞·安东尼奥的继任者。尽管许多土地赠款从未得到过彻底的调查，但约巴斯（Yorbas）拥有其土地的明确所有权，并能够保留所有土地。
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