Mexican cookbooks

1. Ted Genoways

Tequila Wars

A revelatory history of the vast tequila empire born from the fires of the Mexican Revolution.

1. Lisa Costa
2. Emily Giesbrecht

Hermana, I Want to Hear Your Story!

1. Kiera Wright-Ruiz

My (Half) Latinx Kitchen

“As [Wright-Ruiz] restrainedly reveals the loneliness and sadness she experienced during a difficult childhood, her story will hold readers rapt, while the bright photography and illustrations balance out the often-serious narrative.” — Booklist (starred review) "This one-of-a-kind cookbook will inspire many to study their own roots and explore their culinary heritage." — Library Journal "A refreshing take on the increasingly popular cookbook-memoir subgenre, My (Half) Latinx Kitchen is a soul-searching journey that uses food as a navigating force." — BookPage "This heartfelt cookbook will inspire home chefs of any ethnic background." — Publishers Weekly “Kiera’s story is not what we typically think of when we imagine narrative identity-driven cookbooks. It’s more than that. It’s heartbreaking, raw, and eye-opening. And at the end of the day, it’s deeply inspiring because woven throughout these stories Kiera has managed to share light, love, and a beautifully delicious approach to Latin American cuisine.” — Molly Yeh, cookbook author and Food Network host “Kiera Wright-Ruiz's My (Half) Latinx Kitchen is entirely singular: hilarious and poignant in its stories, precise and flavorful in its recipes, the book is a gem of memory and feeling for where you've been, where you're going, and how you find yourself in between. Wright-Ruiz's prose is dazzling, and her recipes are delicious—My (Half) Latinx Kitchen explores and delights through new, flavorful, and loving ground. I didn't want it to end.” — Bryan Washington, author of Family Meal and Memorial “It is impossible not to fall deeply for My (Half) Latinx Kitchen. The writing drew me in, both unpretentious and disarming. In her stunning debut cookbook, Kiera Wright-Ruiz writes about her personal experience as a mixed-race kid in America and her complex journey to self-acceptance as a Latinx woman with refreshing candor and warmth. And then there is the food, inventive, colorful and brimming with Kiera’s multicultural spirit. This is the type of food I crave, featuring flavors and ingredients I yearn to cook more with—I’ve been so blessed to have My (Half) Latinx Kitchen as my North Star. I couldn’t love this book more.” — Hetty Lui McKinnon, food writer and author of five cookbooks including To Asia, With Love and Tenderheart “In My (Half) Latinx Kitchen, Kiera gives us a glimpse and taste of a common cross-cultural type of upbringing that has nonetheless been underrepresented. The memoir and recipes both shine, complementing each other to create an immersive experience—whether you just want to read, or just want to eat.” — Alicia Kennedy, author of No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating “The recipes, stories and photography are phenomenal, and the illustrations give a touch of whimsy that just makes the book sing! Kiera’s book is truly one of a kind, and I can’t wait for the rest of the world to get their hands on it!” — Esteban Castillo, author of Chicano Eats: Recipes from my Mexican-American Kitchen “In My (Half) Latinx Kitchen, Kiera takes you on a poignant journey of self-discovery through food. I felt completely immersed in her stories about her family and all the ways they have shaped who she is today. She is adept at writing such soul-enriching recipes with flair. Kiera laid everything on the table for this cookbook, and we are so lucky to experience it.” — Abi Balingit, baking blogger at The Dusky Kitchen and James Beard Award-winning author of Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed “Like Kiera, I'm half Latinx, and like Kiera, I grew up feeling conflicted about that aspect of my identity. Through engaging stories and evocative recipes, Kiera deftly sifts through the questions of race, ethnicity, kith, and kin to not only honor the experience of being half, but to show us all how to celebrate it. This book is a triumph, and I will be thinking of it for many years to come.” — G. Daniela Galarza, staff writer at The Washington Post

1. Catherine , Perez

Peaceful Kitchen

"In her first cookbook, Catherine Perez, a food creator and registered dietitian, [explores] plant-based recipes, proving serenity can be found in a well-balanced, wholesome meal. Whether you are considering a plant-based diet, lead a dedicated vegan lifestyle, or just want some new ways to season and enjoy veggies, Peaceful Kitchen is for you. Perez helps you take the stress out of eating well with recipes that pull from the Mexican and Dominican dishes and flavors she was raised on--adding her own ... twists--served with a side of the latest evidenced-based research. From moro de habichuelas to breakfast tostadas, she shows you how eating healthfully doesn't mean eating blandly"--

1. Linda Ronstadt
2. Lawrence Downes

Feels Like Home

"Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands […] is a way to explain why the arid land that starts in Arizona and stretches into Mexico's west coast is [Ronstadt's] foothold in the world. It's a story she has told through music, and now wants to tell—as much as she can—through food."—The New York Times "The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, granddaughter of Mexican immigrants and descendant of Spanish settlers, explores her family history and the complicated relationship between the US and Mexico in her new book, Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands. […] In the book and in conversation, her continuing love for the music and culture she grew up with shines through."—Esquire "[Feels Like Home] is most easily described as a memoir. […] In reality the book is many things at once. It’s a portrait of a place, the Sonoran Desert, and it’s a genealogy of sorts, an archival romp through Ronstadt’s family history. It’s about music: 'How a singer is both born and made, learning by singing and being sung to,' in the words of her co-author, the journalist Lawrence Downes. But it’s also about food."—Vogue "Feels Like Home expands on the theme of her musical memoir, Simple Dreams, which was published in 2013. Along with the personal stories that Ronstadt has never before told in full about her ancestors and her childhood in the 1950s and '60s, she also draws attention to the border politics that have impacted the lives of so many immigrants and refugees."—San Francisco Chronicle "[A] travelogue, a memoir, a family history, a photo study, and a cookbook that will transport you to the vast dessert that links Arizona and Mexico."—Boston Globe "Linda Ronstadt's Feels Like Home is an album of loves for the high desert of Sonora and her hometown of Tucson, shown through photos by Bill Steen and pages of her own recollections of family and friends and even—or maybe that's especially—recipes that bring family and friends together with echoes of each other."—NPR "A lively, lovely exaltation of the dry, cactus-studded, indelible Sonoran Desert." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Ronstadt celebrates her roots in this engaging, personal and entertaining hybrid family memoir/cookbook and social history." —Library Journal, starred review "Chock-full of the Mexican ranch recipes Ronstadt learned at home, [Feels Like Home] also recalls a time before walls and politics had driven a wedge between a culture she remembers as 'fluid,' when the Southwest was communal rather than rife with cultural conflict."—The Daily Beast "Is any Tucsonan as beloved as Linda Ronstadt? Likely not, and her celebration of the Sonoran Desert will help cinch the deal. […] Her book is richly illustrated with photographs of people and places and studded with saliva-spurring recipes, but it's Linda Ronstadt's winsome prose that makes it a treasure." —Pima County Library, 2023 Southwest Book of the Year "One of the key questions of Feels Like Home [is] how to validate long-term attachments to and senses of place that are nevertheless those of settlers. This is an important question for U.S. readers, whose familial connections to this country’s legacy of Indigenous dispossession are often left unknown or are blurred behind the discourse of a nation of immigrants. Ronstadt holds the two in tension."—Los Angeles Review of Books "Feels Like Home issues an invitation to sit a while and listen as Ronstadt regales us with warm stories of the ones she loves, the places woven into the fabric of her being, and the food and music that sustain us all."—No Depression "[A] celebration of culture, music, geography, food and family ties that know no borders. It is eloquently told by a singer who has devoted much of her career to transcending musical borders […] [Ronstadt's] memoir is a valentine to her family and the Mexican heritage she has long celebrated in words and music."—San Diego Union-Tribune "Illuminates the culture, food and natural wonders of the Sonoran Desert, which stretches from [Ronstadt's] Arizona childhood home through a large swatch of northern Mexico."—Parade "A must for fans, [Feels Like Home is] a heartfelt homage to [Ronstadt's] Mexican heritage and deep emotional connection to the American Southwest, where the Tucson-born artist grew up. The beloved singer […] writes lyrically about her ancestral homelands and crossing 'and recrossing and crisscrossing' the literal and metaphoric borders between them, 'until it fades to insignificance, like a rubbed-out pencil mark.'"—AARP Magazine "In 2013, Ronstadt wrote a more traditional memoir about her career titled Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir […] Her new book, however, goes much farther back, diving into her personal history, tracing her family’s Mexican roots in Sonora, and fondly recalling how her musical childhood in Arizona shaped her as a performer."—Woman's World "This memoir provides deep insight into Ronstadt’s roots."—Alta Journal "Grammy award-winning singer Linda Ronstadt shares a profoundly moving and visceral memoir and travelog, rooted in place, family heritage, history and food. Co-written with New York Times editor Lawrence Downes, Feels Like Home explores Ronstadt's background long before she became a musical icon. [...] This book digs deep into the linkages that produced her rich body of work and, more importantly, shaped her identity." —BookTrib "A true labor of love and a must-read."—Long Island Weekly "Reading Feels Like Home is a tactile experience that employs the senses. It begins with its beautiful design as a smaller-size coffee table book, printed on fine, thick paper and filled with full-color family photographs and scenes from the Sonoran Borderlands. Twenty recipes, arranged by theme and broken up into batches, follow various sections of the book. These recipes allow readers to experience something that Ronstadt thoroughly enjoys; it is a unique form of immersion into her story through the taste and aroma of food."—BookTrib "Feels Like Home is a memoir with food and a travel book about a handful of families. Ronstadt is at the book’s center, providing a deep understanding of what life was like for those hardy people who settled in the Sonoran desert many years ago, as well as the Indigenous people who lived there for centuries longer."—Orange County Register "Informative yet casual, reading the book feels like a day hanging out with Ronstadt while being amazed by her ordinary demeanor [and] lack of pretense despite her wealth and fame."—Cleburne Times-Review “[A] very sweet-hearted book [...] it hits a lot of sweet spots for what is kind of the perfect coffee table book.”—Mark Athitakis, KJZZ Radio, Phoenix "Ronstadt's tone is friendly, unaffected and disarming. Readers will be enchanted by the genial manner in which she shares details of her background, heritage and personal evolution. This beautiful book, rich in heart and soul, is tremendously enhanced by the wonderful photos taken by Ronstadt's friend Bill Steen. After reading the memoir, fans will come away knowing and loving Linda Ronstadt even more." —Pop Culture Classics “Feels Like Home invites us on an exquisite journey of beauty, adventure and history. It’s a magical trip you don’t want to miss. This book will fill your heart, your soul and your spirit. We need that now more than ever.”—Dolores Huerta, labor organizer and civil-rights activist “Feels Like Home is personal and revealing—with vivid portraits of her forebears who immigrated first to Northern Mexico and then Tucson, Arizona, with striking photographs, family letters, and an array of recipes and songs, she weaves together an unforgettable tale of her life and talented musical family. This is quintessentially an American story—touching, and well worth reading.”—Jerry Brown, former governor of California

1. Rick , Martínez

Mi Cocina

"New York Times contributor, Food52 columnist, and former Bon Appâetit food editor Rick Martâinez introduces home cooks to the diverse culinary treasures of Mexico. [He] travels to each of the seven regions in Mexico to explore 100 unique dishes, the recipe for each accompanied by ... on-site photography"--Publisher marketing.