Culinary Mexico
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Nice but not unique
  • Beyond, Well Beyond Tex-Mex
  • A Truly Definitive Work on Mexican Cuisine
Culinary Mexico
Daniel Hoyer
Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1586853759

Book Description

Join author and chef Daniel Hoyer on a journey of discovery through the varied geography, culture, history, and cuisine of Mexico.
Hoyer's creative collection of recipes from the vastly diverse regions of Mexico prove that it's about time we abandon old notions of Mexican food-tacos, enchiladas, burritos, and refried beans all covered in melted cheese. Mexico's rich history and myriad cultural influences are reflected in its food, which exposes a largely unexplored world of nuanced flavors and unique ingredients, as well as a wide range of cooking styles and techniques.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Nice but not unique.......2006-04-20

This is a very nice book but it covers a lot of ground that is already well-documented. Thsi probably would be good introduction to Mexican food but if you're already cooking, it's a bit redundant and there's no unique perspective.

5 out of 5 stars Beyond, Well Beyond Tex-Mex.......2006-01-20

Having grown up in Texas and near Texas in Louisiana I started on Mexican food early. Then it came as a big surprise when I first went to Mexico and found that they didn't eat the Tex-Mex style of foods upon which I had grown up. Instead, they eat a lot of things that I had never considered as part of Mexican food, things like fish, and shrimp. They even have some vegetables other than rice and beans.

This book is subtitled 'Authentic Recipe and Traditions.' In it you will NOT find the usual tacos, enchiladas and the like. But you will find a few things that are beginning to make it onto American menus, things like carnitas (his recipe includes adding a can of cola to the broth), asado (which you can do with goat, port, or lamb), and queso fundido.

For some guests coming over this weekend though, there is only one choice: Queso Relleno. Relleno, he says means stuffed. And in this dish he turns the usual Chili Relleno inside out and makes it baked cheese stuffed with spiced meat. I've just got to try it.

But enough writing. It's gotten to be evening time and I can't wait any longer. I'm off to my favorite Mexican restaurant.

5 out of 5 stars A Truly Definitive Work on Mexican Cuisine.......2005-12-14

When we're not cooking Cuban, we love to try other ethnic cuisines and Mexican food is no exception. However, we tend to shun the predominant Tex-Mex style in favor of REAL Mexican cuisine as enjoyed not in the tourist centers, but in the heartland of Mexico.

We're adding Culinary Mexico to our small collection of Mexican recipe books. It joins books by Diana Kennedy and Rick Bayless as this author has created an excellent and definitive work on Mexican cuisine. Although we especially liked the recipes from the Yucatan, where many of the flavors echo those found in Cuban cuisine, we were even more impressed with Hoyer's sections on Mexico's Central Crossroads and Colonial Plains and Highlands where the cooking style is pure, simple, and uninfluenced by the tastes of American tourists on a beach vacation.

If you want to explore a cuisine that is light years removed from the food dished out at the local Taco Bell, this is a great book with which to begin your journey.

Highly recommended.

Also recommended: Three Guys From Miami Cook Cuban
Seasons of My Heart: A Culinary Journey Through Oaxaca, Mexico
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A fabulous book
  • NURTURES MINDS AND BODIES
  • Great food, you'll not likely find the ingredients though...
  • My sampling of Oaxacan tamales was at a local Mexican booth
  • Brilliant
Seasons of My Heart: A Culinary Journey Through Oaxaca, Mexico
Susana Trilling
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0345425960
Release Date: 1999-11-09

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Right at the tip of the poblano chile that makes up the bulk of Mexico, right where the land squeezes together and pushes the Yucatán Peninsula out into the Atlantic Ocean, you'll find the state of Oaxaca. It's kind if a round state, like a grapefruit with a handle. Only Chiapas is further south, and beyond that lies Guatemala. This is to say that the Mexican cuisine Susana Trilling presents in her wonderful, informative book Seasons of My Heart has nothing to do with the generic food of the border. She follows in the tradition of Diana Kennedy, Rick Bayless, Zarela Martinez, Patricia Quintana, and Marilyn Tausend, both when setting a table and setting a standard.

Part of Oaxaca butts up against the Pacific Ocean; part of it is lost in the mountains. In between are valleys and plains. Susana Trilling lives, works, and raises her family in Oaxaca. Her knowledge of her adopted land is indeed intimate--and delicious. Take a restaurant owner and caterer out of New York and drop her in Oaxaca and it's guaranteed that she's going to zero in on the food and its traditions. Some Oaxacan food has roots in Spanish cuisine, but most of it is, well, Oaxacan, and has been that way since time untold. In Seasons of My Heart, Trilling walks the interested visitor through all the different regions and foodstuffs of Oaxaca. This book is like interactive anthropology: you read about Oaxaca, then you eat the food, filling your house with the cooking aromas of another land.

Trilling divides her book into chapters that reflect the distinct regions of the state, finishing up with chapters on mole, updated recipes for the modern kitchen and palate, and essential ingredients to make the food happen. --Schuyler Ingle

Book Description

Nestled in the heart of the Mexican state of Oaxaca is Rancho Aurora, home of the Seasons of My Heart cooking school and inn. Ten years ago, chef and owner Susana Trilling left New York City and a very successful catering business to follow what turned out to be her calling--to immerse herself in the foods, culture, and traditions of this remote and exotic region of Mexico and share her knowledge with the rest of the world.

In this book and its companion PBS series, Susana shares her deep passion and anthropologic knowledge of this fascinating region whose cuisine remains virtually untouched by influences from the outside world. The pre-Hispanic and Spanish-influenced dishes, such as empanadas, nopales, quelites, and moles, are much more complex and delicious than the usual rice and beans found north of the border.

Susana not only takes us on a fascinating journey through the city markets, mountain regions, coastal villages, and low-lying coffee and cacao plantations, she introduces us to the beautiful people who work and live there. Along the way, she shares traditional recipes from each region, with her own improvisations and improvements, showing us how to easily approach this rich and delicious food in a modern American kitchen.

From Dona Josefa Sanchez's empanadas de betabel (beet empanadas), served to hungry shoppers at the Etla market in the Central Valleys, to the darkly luscious and mysterious Mole Negro Oaxaqueno (Oaxacan black mole) from the bustling heart of Oaxaca City, cooked up in quantity for the Día de los Muertos (day of the dead), to a tamale-making session given by the locally infamous Candida Blas Aguilar in the sleepy Isthmus region--this is truly a culinary journey through the heart and soul of Oaxaca.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A fabulous book.......2007-03-25

Seasons of my Heart is the best book on Mexican recipes from Oaxaca I have ever read and owned. Living in Columbus, Ohio I have been able to find all of the ingredients required for most recipes. There are individual recipes which by themselves would make this book worthwhile owning. To name just a couple of these, the basic chicken stock recipe, the tortilla soup recipe and the three milk cake are extraordinary and easy. It is well written and the instructions are easy to follow. It is a very treasured cookbook in my collection. Anybody who enjoys great food, and in particular Mexican food should have this book.

5 out of 5 stars NURTURES MINDS AND BODIES.......2004-02-11

Some twelve years ago chef Susan Trilling said goodbye to an alive New York City catering business to follow her heart to a remote and exotic region of Mexico - Oaxaca. Today, deep in the heart of this Mexican state is Rancho Aurora, home of the Seasons of My Heart cooking school and inn.

A companion to the well received National Public Television Series, Seasons of My Heart is a tribute to the people, culture and cuisine of this far-off area which has remained virtually untouched. "Oaxaca invites a deep appreciation of Mexican culture," the author writes. "Here time has stood still in the small village where I went to visit my husband for the first time. I was enchanted with every burro laden with corn going to the mill, every horse-drawn cart filled with alfalfa for the cows and horses......"

A veritable armchair travelogue, this colorfully illustrated volume takes readers to a tomato lunch in the field, to harvest time by dawn, to a traditional wedding feast, and to see a primitive altar laden with dishes for religious holidays.

Trilling wisely not only shares these treasured recipes, but offers her personal alterations and advice for successfully preparing them in American kitchens. Imagine sitting down to a platter of "Tamales De Ragas" (Chile and Tomato Tamales) with its appetizing marriage of sweet tomatoes and onions or "Empanadas De Mole Amarillo (Baked Mole Amarillo Turnovers), which are often prepared to order on charcoal grills set up outside local churches.

Seasons Of My Heart nurtures not only bodies, but minds and imaginations as well.

- Gail Cooke

3 out of 5 stars Great food, you'll not likely find the ingredients though..........2003-12-11

After recently attending a cooking class by Susana Trilling, I can attest to the wonderful recipes in this book. Not only that, but Susana is a wonderful person with great knowledge of the culture.

However impressive the recipes may be though, there is a huge problem with this book. Many of the recipes in the book call for ingredients that can't be found even in a speciality mexican store, and some are unique to Oaxaca itself. While this in itself is not a problem, Susan does not provide any help with suitable substitutions for those unique ingredients. For an advanced cook maybe this isn't a problem, but for a beginner or intermediate cook, this makes the book nearly unusable. In general, the recipes are quite involved and complex in comparison to other mexican cook books I have seen.

I would not recommend this book to someone who is newer to cooking or does not live in an area where an ample supply of mexican cooking ingredients can be found. Perhaps Susana will make a second addition for us newbie cooks that provides us with better alternatives.

4 out of 5 stars My sampling of Oaxacan tamales was at a local Mexican booth.......2002-12-24

These tamales were delicious with lots of chili-laden pork wrapped with a specially coarse ground masa mixture and wrapped with banana leaves and finally wrapped in Al foil and steamed. While not done in the same mole variation as Trilling shows on p261, they were called the same on the menu board. They had a homemade creamy red salsa available on request too. I've had these cheap, savory, and filling lunches a few times, and taken them home and reheating them in a microwave for a nice snack.

This is a wonderfully illustrated cookbook has many black & white pix of people & illustrations and also 16 pages of color plates of people and food. While this unusually organized cookbook is separated into microclimates of Oaxaca, a small state south of Mexico City, I found the chap 7 on Tuxtepec as having the most savory sounding recipes.

Be aware that this cookbook is quite vegetarian and fish oriented, for example, in chap 6 for the mountainous region of the state, there were 16 recipes with only one with meat. There were no menudo recipes or any recipes with variety meats, such as calves' foot, tongue, and tripe in the entire book.

I found her book at a local library along with Diane Kennedy and Rick Bayless. Kennedy's classic Cuisines cookbook was my first introduction in Mexican cooking many years ago.

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant.......2001-08-09

I just want to concur with the other reviews and add that Susana Trilling is a brilliant chef, period -- in Mexican cooking or otherwise. I don't understand it, but she really knows how to balance flavors in a way that is unique, compared to similar recipes I've followed. What makes one chef good and another great? I don't know - but she's got it, whatever it is!
My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with More Than 300 Recipes
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Great Book. Needs Spanish version :-)
  • this is the best book ever!!
  • Fabulous Mexico
  • Very Personal Culinary Tour. Not for the Novice Mexican
  • Great Food...
My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with More Than 300 Recipes
Diana Kennedy
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0609602470
Release Date: 1998-10-20

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Every country should have a Diana Kennedy, someone steeped in its culture and cooking who cruises around recording all the local recipes and sharing them with the world. My Mexico is Kennedy's rambling record of forays in pursuit of dishes that might be of interest. Based on the recipes she found, such as Posole de Camarone, a brothy shrimp and dried-corn stew, sweet Green Mango Roll, and tiny new potatoes cooked Shepherd style, Kennedy's travels have been quite fruitful.

Anyone may enjoy the wealth of recipes in this book, but only connoisseurs of Mexican cooking familiar with the varied and regional nature of its food are likely to appreciate the unusual nature of Kennedy's finds. Concentrating on what is unique, the author refers readers to her previous five works on Mexico for fundamental techniques or other background. Even the method for making masa in My Mexico is an uncommon one, presented to Kennedy by the woman who waters her plants.

This literate work is rich in almost novelistic descriptions. Long passages describe her graphic observations. She shares her love of the country where she has lived since 1957 with equal measures of loving passion and curmudgeonly criticism.

Charts and photos help show the variety of chiles and other foods that help give Mexican cooking its constant, often subtle variety. When recipes call for pulque, a mildly fermented juice from the agave plant, sour tunas, a kind of cactus fruit, or other ingredients you can't get, move on to her more accessible dishes or, as Kennedy did, let this book be a journey of discoveries. --Dana Jacobi

Book Description

"Why my Mexico?" asks Diana Kennedy in her introduction to this long-awaited book. The answer is simple and obvious: it is a highly personal book about the Mexico she knows. And no one knows Mexico the way Diana does.     When Diana Kennedy first came to Mexico more than forty years ago, she did not intend to become the country's premier gastronome. But that is what she has become, traveling endlessly, learning the culinary histories of families, hunting elusive recipes, falling under the spell of the beauty of a countryside that produces such a wealth of foods. She has published five books and is referred to variously as the Julia Child, the Escoffier, and the high priestess of Mexican cooking. Most important, she has taken as her eternal project to record not only the wealth of Mexican culinary knowledge and folklore but also the fascinating stories behind it all.

My Mexico records Diana's recent wanderings, along with memories stored away from previous trips.    With wondrous, novelistic prose, Diana tells the story behind her discovery of each dish, from the Pollo Almendrado (Chicken in Almond Sauce) she discovered in Oaxaca to the Estafado de Raya (Skate Stewed in Olive Oil) that delighted her in Coahuila. Yes, there are some fairly simple recipes for inexperienced cooks--look for the new guacamoles and the addictive chilatas. More complicated ones are for aficionados who know the intricacies of the ingredients.      

Times have changed greatly since Diana published her first book. More and more ingredients are available in the U.S., and  more and more people have learned of the true joys of real Mexican cooking. One thing has not changed--Diana Kennedy's passion. For those who already are familiar with her work, this volume is a much-needed addition to your library. For those who are not, you are in for a treat of the first order.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great Book. Needs Spanish version :-).......2007-06-22

This is a wonderful book. Reason I give 4 stars is that it needs pictures of the recipes.

Also, It would be nice to have it in Spanish as well.

5 out of 5 stars this is the best book ever!!.......2006-08-26

it's like going to mexico everytime you read it and the recipes are very authentic and tasty. this is my all time favorite book.

5 out of 5 stars Fabulous Mexico.......2006-02-12

This is a book every lover of fine cuisine must read. It gives a whole new face to Mexican food. I loved Diana Kennedy's tales of how she came to find the various recipes, the harrowing journeys into the country to find the recipes she'd heard of, her description of the people she encountered in kitchens, over open fires, in little inns.

Reading the book makes you want to explore the country, try all the different foods, and try to prepare the foods as well. You can lose yourself in the book. It is written so well that you can taste and smell every detail of Kennedy's description.

This is not just a cookbook, it is a journey into a wonderful culture, and culture "junkey" that I am, I relished every word.

4 out of 5 stars Very Personal Culinary Tour. Not for the Novice Mexican.......2005-05-19

`My Mexico' by leading authority on Mexican food, Diana Kennedy is her eighth book, seven of which are on Mexican cuisine. This easily puts her in the forefront of writers on national cuisines, along with Julia Child, Penelope Casas, Marcella Hazan, and Diane Kochilas. It even puts her ahead of the very well known writer, educator, and Chicago restaurateur, Rick Bayless, who has paltry four books on Mexican food to his credit.

I have reviewed Ms. Kennedy's ninth book, `From My Mexican Kitchen', which I consider a real gem among treatises on the techniques of national cuisines. It goes into various techniques, especially baking, on which Ms. Kennedy is a certifiable expert, to a level of detail that one rarely sees in other books. The current book under consideration is much different from the later volume and should expect to find a much narrower audience.

`My Mexico' is a personal culinary diary, with echos of a John Steinbeck `Travels With Charley' air about it. Like many other culinary surveys, it is organized by Mexican province rather than by type of dish. And, unlike Ms. Casas' excellent `Delicioso!' culinary geography of Spain, with lots of interesting summaries of characteristics of the various regions, Ms. Kennedy is purely the tourist in this book, dwelling on the specific people and places and dishes she encounters in her travels throughout Mexico.

As an aside, I will add the opinion that Ms. Kennedy seems to find much ugliness in the urban development, congestion, lack of good highways, and disappearance of natural beauty in her beloved Mexico. The recitation of changes she finds distasteful make one wonder how her affection for the country survives the uncontrolled and somewhat corrupt development in Mexico. But then, she talks about the food and all seems forgiven.

As someone who is not nearly as familiar with Mexico as I have come to be of Italy, France, Germany, or England, the first thing I miss is a good map. This absence is especially noisome as this is about culinary geography, regardless of how personal. The second thing I miss is a listing of recipes by type of dish. As all recipes in the text are located by region or state, many of whose names are unknown to me, a listing by primary ingredient or course in the style of most cookbooks would make this book much more valuable to the novice to Mexican food. The book does include an alphabetical listing of recipes, but since it is alphabetical by Spanish name, it doesn't do me much good. I can barely find my way around culinary Italian, let alone Spanish. My study of German does little good in the largely Latin world of culinary diversity.

This is the kind of book that will be enjoyed primarily by people who already know and love Mexico. I get the picture of such readers being hobbits at Bilbo Baggins 111th birthday party with their feet up on the table and nibbling to fill in the odd, empty corners of their generous stomachs. This is the book for people who would not learn much from yet another book of familiar Mexican recipes. I would get pleasure out of a similar book on German or Austrian cuisine as I have been to many places in Germany and I believe there are not enough books concentrating on Austro-Hungarian cuisine.

Ending on a positive note, I relish the discovery in this book of a culinary treatment of cuitlacoche (on page 456), the fungus that grows on corn and which I understand it is a great delicacy in Mexico. I have been familiar with this foul looking stuff for many years, but I first encountered its culinary interest on the very first Food Network `Iron Chef America' show pitting Bobby Flay against Sr. Bayless of Frontera Grill. I was really rooting for Bayless, who lost by a single point to Flay, and I was left wondering, with Alton Brown, who was the brave soul who first looked at the stuff as something good to eat. Well, Ms. Kennedy fills us in on the subject.

Highly recommended for all who can't get enough of books about Mexican food. For all other, check out Ms. Kennedy's other books.

4 out of 5 stars Great Food..........2003-07-03

This is my first "authentic" Mexican cuisine cookbook. I'm from St. Paul, MN, where you would think there would be a serious lack of authentic Mexican food, however, the part of St. Paul I am from has a very large Latino community, the recipes in this book remind me of many meals I've had in friends homes. It is excellent if you are looking for authentic recipes and the real taste of Mexican cuisine. Fans of Taco Bell, forget it.
Matt Martinez's Culinary Frontier
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Great Tex Mex
  • The first cook book I have read for pleasure.
  • Absolutely...the very best cookbook on authentic Tex-Mex .
Matt Martinez's Culinary Frontier
Matt Martinez , and Steve Pate
Manufacturer: Broadway
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0385485069
Release Date: 1997-09-14

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Reading Matt Martinez's Culinary Frontier is like digging into heaps of the best food you've ever eaten while listening as a kicked-back, sleepy-eyed hombre tells you how his Mexican grandfather fled to the U.S. to escape hanging, then started the first Tex-Mex restaurant in Austin, Texas. Martinez, who spices up his volume with old family photos, talks about feeding the local politicians and famous sports figures who come through town. You want him to keep talking while you keep eating.

Martinez practices true cowboy and prairie cooking. He claims that all dishes can be prepared in a cast-iron skillet. He believes in lard and homemade chorizo, but also cooks lean food. Carne Gasado, an elemental chicken stew, Matt's Jalapeno Coleslaw, and creamy King Ranch Casserole made with sirloin are evidence of his cooking style. Catch the recipes for smoky and hot Chipotle Sauce, unusual Corn Tortilla Quesadillas, and incendiary Prairie Mary Cocktail. If you get to Dallas, the Smoked Baked Potato served at Matt's No Place, one of the four restaurants Martinez has in Texas, is an experience long remembered. Thanks to Culinary Frontier, you can try to duplicate it at home.

Book Description

Matt Martinez, Jr., has his paternal grandfather to thank for his culinary success. A soldier in Pancho Villa's army, Delphino Martinez was captured by the Federales, but managed to escape across the Texas border, and eventually open, in 1925, Austin's first Tex-Mex restaurant, called El Original. The Martinez family has been in the restaurant business ever since.



In Matt Martinez'S Culinary Frontier, Matt has gathered all of the recipes that are closest to his heart, for cooking "the way it's been done in the Southwest since the days of the vaqueros and real cowboys, whose cast-iron skillets were used and used and used some more." Here you will find classics for every time of day, from breakfast Huevos Rancheros (as they were served to young Matt in the kitchen by his maternal grandmother) to Matt's Competition Chili (Chili, he claims, originated in San Antonio in the 1900s, and he has the story to prove it.), to Chile Rellenos (Lyndon Johnson's favorite), to Standard South Texas Fried Chicken (which his mother served at Matt's El Rancho from the day it opened in 1952) to Early Texas Chicken Fried Steak. And for each recipe there's a story, of Matt, his family, or of the dish itself. Not only are Matt's recipes easy and delicious, they are authentic and untouched by modern trends. As Matt says, "Dancing with the one that brung us has always been a rule of thumb in Texas. Staying close to what you hold dear, to what makes your little ol' heart pitter-patter, is what this cookbook is all about."

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Tex Mex.......2006-09-27

I've owned this cookbook since around the time it was released and still use it. The recipes are generally easy and very delicious. I really like Matt's Big Time Eatin' Chili.

5 out of 5 stars The first cook book I have read for pleasure........1999-07-05

This is a simple to use, easy to read, enjoyable cook book that is not only a pleasure to work out of, but is intresting and fun to read.

The recepies are straight forward, Martha Stewart would hate this book.

For years I have been tring to make enchalidas for my family without them having the consistantly of tree bark. Matt has shown me how to share the recipies I enjoyed so much growing up in Texas to my family being raised in New York City.

5 out of 5 stars Absolutely...the very best cookbook on authentic Tex-Mex ........1998-11-27

Great recipes. Great stories. The #1 authority on Tex-Mex Cooking in America. A "Best Buy" book for yourself or gift.
Cuisines of Hidden Mexico: A Culinary Journey to Guerrero and Michoacan (Wiley Culinary Journeys)
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • More travelogue than cookbook
  • Some strange, many wonderful recipes with fun travel stories
Cuisines of Hidden Mexico: A Culinary Journey to Guerrero and Michoacan (Wiley Culinary Journeys)
Bruce Kraig , and Dudley Nieto
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0471121290

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Based on the authors' PBS documentary, this riveting account of a journey to two Mexican states reveals how closely each region's tantalizing recipes are interwoven with its history, anthropology and folk art. Covers agriculture, food preparation, the social places of food and eating habits. Contains 75 delicious indigenous recipes along with line drawings by one of Mexico's best-known engravers.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars More travelogue than cookbook.......1998-09-17

If you want to read how a group from Chicago made a PBS documentary (which I haven't seen), this is your book! The recipes are not part of "Hidden Mexico". And there aren't many of them.

4 out of 5 stars Some strange, many wonderful recipes with fun travel stories.......1998-08-24

"Cuisines of Hidden Mexico" is at first, a fun travelogue with the authors driving all around Mexico, telling colorful tales of the pople they meet along the way. The travelers have adventurous tastes as they sample various delicacies such as insects, iguana and other funky critters that are too daring for most tastes!

As for the recipes themselves, there are several excellent ideas for just about anyone who wishes to try something different whether it's appetizers, main courses, salsas or desserts. My particular favorite is the "burnt chipotle salsa", which is out of this world. Once you try it, you'll be hooked for life.

A fun book with some good recipes you'll never get anywhere else.
Culinary New Mexico
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Outlines all food oriented destinations, from handmade chocolate makers to breweries and cafes
Culinary New Mexico
Sally Moore
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Epicurean enchantment New Mexico style!

New Mexican food is a guideline to the state's history, fusing the cooking of old Mexico, Spain, and indigenous peoples into a cuisine all its own. As food-conscious travelers come to the Land of Enchantment, they seek out those mercados, carnicerías, and roadside stands where they can purchase New Mexico products.

• Organized by major cities, and by regions • Highlights feast days, regional contacts, sources, and specialty stores • Includes bakeries, tortillerías, wineries, breweries, and much more

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Outlines all food oriented destinations, from handmade chocolate makers to breweries and cafes.......2005-07-04

Even residents of New Mexico may not realize all the gourmet events happening around the state, nor the culinary trends taking place: that's why professional food writer Sally Moore's Culinary New Mexico: The Ultimate Food Lover's Guide will prove eye-opening to so many. From restaurants and bakeries to food festivals, cooking stores and even wineries, Culinary New Mexico outlines all food oriented destinations, from handmade chocolate makers to breweries and cafes. The recipes scattered throughout also assure many dishes will be reproduced outside the state; but the meat of Culinary New Mexico lies in its destination-oriented tips travelers and residents will appreciate!
Wrap & Roll: California Culinary Academy
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Wrap & Roll: California Culinary Academy
California Culinary Academy
Manufacturer: MacMillan Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

GeneralGeneral | Baking | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
GeneralGeneral | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0028622871

Book Description

One of the best cooking schools in the country offers instructions and recipes for one of the most popular kinds of foods: wraps. Wrapped foods are meals in edible packages that are loved around the world. In China there are wontons; in Italy, calzone and ravioli; in France there are crepes; in Japan, sushi; Greeks wrap foods in filo dough; Mexicans, in corn tortillas. This book clearly explains the hows and whys of wrapping foods as only a team of culinary professionals can. It offers suggestions for shopping, serving, and preparing ahead of time in addition to providing foolproof recipes and many more variations. The recipes reflect a range of tastes and influences from Asian wraps like Crispy Smoked Salmon Spring Rolls and Vegetarian Maki Sushi to bread wraps like Roast Vegetable and Goat Cheese Calzone, crepes in chocolate and raspberry flavors, filo filled with cheeses, lamb, and wild mushrooms, meat wraps like Chicken Roulade with Prosciutto, pastry wraps like Beef Empanadas, pasta wraps like ravioli, and such vegetable wraps as Herb-Stuffed Turkey Dolmas and Corned Beef and Cabbage Rolls. There are wraps for every occasion here, including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert.The convenience and increasing popularity of wrapped foods themselves is complemented by the usability of the book. The CCA knows teaching and is able to convey tricky information in the most accessible terms. This is the wrap book to own.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great!.......1999-05-11

This is a really diverse cookbook. If you want quick and painless recipes, this is not the book for you. If you like to cook and experiment with exotic recipes, you will love this. The Thai burritos are a favorite.
Classic Mexican Kitchen: Mexico's Culinary Heritage : Ingredients, Techniques, and Recipes
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    Classic Mexican Kitchen: Mexico's Culinary Heritage : Ingredients, Techniques, and Recipes
    Jane Milton
    Manufacturer: Southwater Publishing
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

    GeneralGeneral | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
    MexicanMexican | Regional & International | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
    ASIN: 1842153846

    Book Description

    Whether you are creating an authentic Mexican feast or simply want a one-dish meal with a twist, the fiery recipes in this book will help bring a little spice into your kitchen.
    Cuisines of Hidden Mexico: A Culinary Journey to Guerrero and Michoacan
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      Cuisines of Hidden Mexico: A Culinary Journey to Guerrero and Michoacan
      Bruce; Nieto, Dudley Kraig
      Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback
      ASIN: B000LF7PKM
      Digestible Delectable and somewhat Decadent New Mexican Feasts from the Land of Enchantment The Unique Cooking of New Mexico Palatable Portions of Culinary History, Dichos y Mas!
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        Binding: Ring-bound
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