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Explore the authentic flavors of TRUE TEX-MEX cooking
"Ideals nourish the spirits, but food sustains the body that houses that spirit. Food keeps the spirit alive. The Wild Horse Desert provided very little for the people that roamed and settled this harsh, hot land. Yet, they survived, and in time, flourished. Their dreams tamed the desert."
—Melissa Guerra
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Great recipes, easy to read, informative and deep.......2007-07-18
With so many cookbooks, the layout can really turn me off of a book. The first thing that struck me when I flipped open to a random page how it drew me in. Most recipes include a bit of the author's personal history with the dish and many introduce with the "old way" of making the dish as well as present a new way that is less labor intensive. Often she will follow up with a recipe for those who want to try the traditional method.
A very thorough book that explores local ingredients, explains when they were served, what you might find in your supermarket and then clearly describes how to prepare the dish.
I'm a recent transplant to Texas and have had my eyes opened to Mexican and Tex-Mex food. This book introduces Norteno cuisine that is found in many traditional border homes. I couldn't wait to try my hand at these recipes.
Also, if you're someone who likes to read cookbooks for enjoyment, you'll love this one.
Recipes from the Wild Horse Desert.......2006-12-11
Great cookbook for those that are looking for TRUE South Texas-Northern Mexico cuisine. It is beautifully written and a cookbook you will keep in your library forever.
Great Cookbook!.......2006-11-21
I am a beginning cook that moved from South Texas and love this book! Now I can make all of my favorites in my own kitchen far from home. The background Melissa gives is so interesting and it makes you feel like she is in the kitchen with you almost!
Outstanding, Authentic, and Beautifully done.......2006-05-11
Of of the few, rare, authentic looks at some exceptionally wonderful food. The book is beautiful, and enhances the feel for understanding the landscape and people that authentic south Texas ranch cooking comes from. Thank God Melissa is secure enough in tradition that she did not feel the need to throw Mangos in everything to prove she was a creative chef. I have pet goats that were adopted as orphans, and they are very sweet and loving, so I no longer eat Cabrito, but have had it enough in the past to appreciate the recipes.
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- very cute book
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- Hola Jalapeno (World Snacks)
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Hola Jalapeno (World Snacks)
Amy Wilson Sanger
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Tacos, frijoles, tortillas, oh my! In this second World Snacks title, Amy Wilson Sanger serves up some sizzling Mexican treats for you and your little gourmet. From burritos to quesadillas to molé, lively mixed media and cut-paper collages take readers on a tour of their favorite foods of Mexico. Sure to satisfy faster than you can say “More, por favor!”
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very cute book.......2007-07-28
we love the sing-song metric to the rhyme in this book. It's not my baby's favorite book, though. She actually prefers "my first sushi book" to this one. Still, we're learning about important foods that we eat in our half-mexican household.
cool and quirky board book.......2007-05-07
My one year old son loves this board book! We actually have the entire series. It's fun and creative, and I don't have to worry about him ripping the pages. We are hooked!
My kids love this one and others by Sanger.......2007-04-09
The pictures are very compelling. Amy's mixed-media collage style appeals to the abstract yet does a good job of representing food. They don't seem to get boring after countless reads.
Moreso the writing lends itself to dramatic interpretation by the reader (me, usually) which makes them fun to read over and over. Many other authors' books become boring after a dozen or so times through and I self-select those out of the bookshelf and into the trade-in box. Not so with Hola Jalapeno.
Also, we live in the land of tex-mexican food and this is a good intro to the cuisine.
Hola Jalapeno (World Snacks) .......2007-01-22
This is a very little kid's book, one of those small 5.5 inch x 5.5 inch, indestructable, 10 thick little pages. I was surprised when I received it. Almost too infant-like for my 5 yr old. It was a little fun though and I didn't return it. Just skimpy, a little disappointing. Honestly, can't remember if it was adequately decribed in the Amazon description. For $6.95, you decide.
Fun.......2007-01-18
We love this book. It is a great way to expose our children to other cultures and makes them excited to try new foods. The pictures are just as fun as the story.
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DELICIOUS!.......2002-05-03
This book is wonderful. La Casa Sena restaurant in Santa Fe is absolutely incredible--their food is so delicious.
I highly recommend this cookbook.
NEIGHBOR.......2000-08-02
John Harrisson is my neighbor and he and his wife are ALWAYS cooking SOMTHING evrything he asks me to try is supurb!
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Lavish Praise for Food from My Heart "There's as much for the serious reader in Zarela Martínez's book Food From My Heart as for the serious cook. Martínez's memoirs of growing up in Mexico…make great armchair reading…" —Los Angeles Times "Restaurateur Zarela Martínez does double duty in Food From My Heart, writing brilliantly about people and culture while demonstrating how to make quite fabulous dishes." —Cosmopolitan "Zarela Martínez is an absolute genius with flavors and this book is a great guide to her talent. I count it as one of the most interesting and invaluable additions to my library, which dates almost forty years." —Craig Claiborne Food and life are inseparable in Mexico—not just eating to live but eating to celebrate, to come together, to worship God and spirit. In Food From My Heart, Zarela Martínez describes the connection between Mexican culture and Mexican food—a collision of Old and New World ingredients, and the culinary influences of a constantly shifting ethnic mosaic. Through the telling of her own story, Martínez reveals the inextricable bond that exists between food and religion and the way Mexicans mark birth, death, marriage, and the daily business of living. Drawing upon the influences of friends, family, and traditional foods from many regions in Mexico, Martínez has created her own personal style of cooking: imaginative and highly flavorful, easy to prepare, and evocative of the classic Mexican cooking upon which it is based. It is all brought together—the traditional and the new—in the form of memoir, stories, and more than 175 recipes to create this unique cookbook.
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food with history.......2002-06-03
This wonderful cookbook is part history book ( of Zarela Martinez' family and experiences in Mexico) as well as being a great book full of wonderful recipes. These recipes are "authenically Mexican" as opposed to being an Americanized version of Mexican food (which is what you are liable to find here in America.) Her subsequent books on Oaxaca and Veracruz are also worth checking out.
The most-often used book in my kitchen.......2001-11-09
I purchased this book after having checked it out of the library and finding I could not let it go -- paid a heavy fine to the library, too! This book is now the most often used in my kitchen. I love to read the author's childhood memories and the background she sets up for the recipes. The recipes are not too complicated, and I have not tried one that has not been a winner! I understand it is now out of print, but I would highly recommend it to anyone who can aquire it!
I borrowed this book from the library/ and need to own it.......1999-09-21
I borrowed the book to learn more about tamales/ but found myself actually reading the book. Excellent. I now want to own it.
Heartwarming! Authentic and Delicious!.......1999-08-27
If you love Mexico, it's cuisine, and it's traditions, you will love this book. The recipes are all superb and Zarela's warmth and love of her family, culture, and food, take center stage. This book captured my heart and took me on a nostalgic journey through the foods and holidays of my childhood! It is a pleasure to recommend this book.
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- Capsicum most hottest
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The Habanero Cookbook
Dave Dewitt , and
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Capsicum most hottest.......2001-01-12
If you're a garden grower of habaneros and don't quite know what to do with your harvest this book provides some good ideas. Since the habanero is so hot not much is needed to heat up a dish, but this little book provides so many suggestions that you'll have many choices. Many of the recipes are very exotic and unless the caribbean is your usual vacation spot you may not have tried these recipes. Jerk sauces abound, as do searing soups, spicy seafood and that super bowl favorite, salsa. The recipes are worldly yet simple. Wouldn't your seafood loving guests just love a little grilled Salmon Borracho, topped with habanero-lime butter with a side of Belizean Coconut Rice? The average stocked kitchen could serve this fare without a trip to the store. This is just one example of your passport to fiery cuisine. There are so many different types of salsa recipes that the combinations will amaze you. After browsing this book you'll be ready to create your own salsa variations or follow the easy recipes provided. The glossary is basic but the mail order sources provided are valuable for those who need seeds to grow their own heat or have some habanero products delivered to their home. An addional treat is the bibliography which lists various books for further exploration. A great book for the habanero chile head.
Habanero Heaven.......1998-07-18
For anyone who has ever eaten, grown, or even heard about the Habanero, this is the book you must get. The Habanero Cookbook contains a plethora of information on the world's "hottest" pepper from its history and growing to its safe handling and cooking. The book has dozens of fantastic recipes, altough they all seem to be of the exotic type and mysteriously they exclude the mighty buffalo wing, which make waiting for my garden to grow an excruciatingly long time. One word of advice, if you already own "The Pepper Pantry; Habanero," skip this book, it's simply a larger version of the Pepper Pantry
Habanero History.......1998-01-24
This book is great for the history of habaneros. I did not know there were so many varieties of habanero. However, there are only a few recipes I would try. My taste runs differently from those in the book.
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Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana is wonderful! It shows that a traditional Mexican or Mexican-American diet can be very sound nutritionally."
—Melissa Bardsley, M.S., R.D. Nutritionist
Mexican food, Tex-Mex, Southwestern cuisine—call it what you will, the foods that originated in Mexico have become everyone's favorites. Yet as we dig into nachos and enchiladas, many people worry about the fats and calories that traditional Mexican food contains.
Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana proves that Mexican cooking can be both delicious
and healthy. In this bilingual cookbook, Maria Luisa Urdaneta and Daryl F. Kanter provide over 200 recipes for some of the most popular Mexican dishes-guacamole, frijoles, Spanish rice, chiles rellenos, chile con carne, chalupas, tacos, enchiladas, fajitas, menudo, tamales, and flan-to name only a few. Without sacrificing a bit of flavor, the authors have modified the recipes to increase complex carbohydrates and total dietary fiber, while decreasing saturated and total fats. These modifications make the recipes suitable for people with diabetes-and all those who want to reduce the fats and calories in their diet. Each recipe also includes a nutritional analysis of calories, fats, sodium, etc., and American Diabetic Association exchange rates.
Because diabetes is a growing problem in the Mexican-American community,
Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana is vital for all those who need to manage their diet without giving up the foods they love. Let it be your one-stop guide to cooking and eating guilt-free Mexican food.
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B Green.......2004-01-21
I was a student of Dr. Urdaneta's years ago and was well aware of her concern of and dedication to the study of diabetes in Hispanic Americans. As I work in a mostly Hispanice, title one school now, I know of the devistation that diabetes brings to families. This book is amazing and the recipes are fantastic. I am ordering more for Christmas gifts to fellow teachers this year. This book is as much of a class act as Dr. Urdaneta.
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- EAT SMART IN MEXICO with this essential new guidebook!
- We find much to learn from this book.
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Eat Smart in Mexico: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure (Eat Smart Series, No. 4) (Eat Smart, No 4)
Joan Peterson , and
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The compact, portable, and very readable EAT SMART guides to world cuisinethe first of their kindhelp travelers experience the delicious culinary delights of a foreign destination. This popular series contains fascinating food history, insight on regional specialties, great recipes to preview the tastes of the country, useful phrases, handy shopping tips, and two extensive bilingual dictionaries to simplify navigating menu and market. Travelers can now easily determine whats on the menu, whats in the market, whats on their plate, and what they can ask for as they travel.
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EAT SMART IN MEXICO with this essential new guidebook!.......1999-02-16
While most Mexico guides devote a section to eating, authors Joan and David Peterson see food as an integral part of the journey, the very basis of travel, and their new guide "Eat Smart in Mexico" (1998, Ginkgo Press, $12.95) reflects that sensibility. One of a series that includes Brazil, Indonesia and Turkey, Eat Smart gives a historical survey of Mexican cuisine followed by an overview of each Mexican region, describing its most representative foods, from the North to the Yucatán. We learn, for example, that Michoacan residents eat churipo, a stew made with potatoes and corn and flavored with the sour cactus fruit xoconostle.
A recipe section presents essentials like birria, mole poblano and chiles rellenos, as well as more exotic offerings like cheese-stuffed squash blossoms and mezcal sea bass with black bean sauce. The recipes have been provided by a number of restaurant owners, cookbook authors and culinary experts.
The most useful section of Eat Smart is its extensive glossary, which is broken down into a menu guide and an ingredients guide. The definitions, written with the gusto of those who are passionate about what they eat, should help readers decipher menus just about anywhere in Mexico. It includes obscure items like codillo enchilmole-pig's knuckles in a black spice paste made of burned chiles, roasted onion and garlic, and juice from the bitter Seville orange, and ayocotes en coloradito-large broad beans in a rich, red, complex sauce of ancho and guajillo chiles, spices, nuts, seeds, raisins and chocolate. Browsing this glossary is certain to whet your appetite to seek out these dishes in the places where they're prepared. -Daniel C. Schecter, Business Mexico
We find much to learn from this book........1998-12-25
In spite of our having traveled in Mexico many years, and having prepared its cuisine at home as well, we find much to learn from this book. And the authors strike us as folks we would like to meet, and even travel with. Carla and Herb Felsted, co-editors, Mexican Meanderings, A Newsletter of Explorations in an Enchanted Land
Take this book with you!.......1998-12-08
Besides containing a brief culinary history of ancient and contemporary Mexico, this very intelligent guide has two sections that are of incredible use to the traveller. "Menu guide" is an encyclopedic translation of hundreds of dishes one will encounter in the menus of Mexican cuisine annotated with phrases such as Regional Classic, National Favorite, etc. "Food and Flavors guide" goes from A la Albanil to Zempasuchil. Take this book with you and you will never be lost in the marketplace or restaurant.
Ron Cooper, President, Del Maguey, Ltd. Co., maker of Single Village Mezcal.
Eat well with savvy.......1998-09-30
Anyone sensible enough to buy a copy before taking off for Mexico will be able to eat really well and even more importantly, to understand what they are eating.-Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz, Author of "The Complete Book of Mexican Cooking"
Wonderful quick study.......1998-09-23
A wonderful quick study for anyone who wants to encounter the foods Mexicans really eat. -Professor Rachel Laudan, Culinary Historian
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- A superb treat to cook and eat from
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The Young Chef's Mexican Cookbook (I'm the Chef)
Karen Ward
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Children will love preparing some of Mexico's typical dishes themselves! The Young Chef's Mexican Cookbook contains a dozen easy-to-prepare recipes with step-by-step instructions and photographs, plus warnings for safety in the kitchen. A special section features the traditions, costumes, food, and fun of the festival of the Day of the Dead.
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A superb treat to cook and eat from.......2001-10-17
The Young Chef's Mexican Cookbook series is an excellent set of four, 40 page, illustrated, easy-to-prepare recipes with step-by-step instructions, intended for young cooks ages 7-12 with eighth grade reading skills. With plenty of full color photographs, kitchen safety instructions, and a special section featuring the costumes, food, and fun of the Day of the Dead festival, The Young Chef's Mexican Cookbook is a superb treat to cook and eat from. Also very highly recommended for any budding young chef are the companion books in the Crabtree Publishing Company's outstanding "Young Chef" series for kids: The Young Chef's Italian Cookbook (0778702936), The Young Chef's Chinese Cookbook (0778702944), and The Young Chef's French Cookbook (0778702960).
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