Mexican cookbooks

1. Ilan , Stavans
2. Margaret E , Boyle

Sabor Judío

"Sabor Judâio celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions: Jewish and Mexican. Written with joy and verve, Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle's lavishly illustrated cookbook demonstrates how cooking and eating connect the Jewish-Mexicans across places and generations. Featuring one hundred deeply personal recipes enjoyed by Mexican Jews around the world, the book is organized by meal -desayuno (breakfast), almuerzo (lunch), and cena (dinner)- and also includes dishes made for Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover, Hanukkah, Shavuot, and other holidays. Sabor Judâio isn't only a cookbook; it is also a vibrant history of Jewish immigration to Mexico from 1492 to the present. It explains how flavors and dishes evolved in Mexican and Jewish kitchens and how they fused into a distinct cuisine, mainly by the labor of Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, and converso women. This cookbook is the product of two award-winning, internationally known Jewish Mexican writers and foodies who spent a decade gathering recipes and personal narratives from Jewish Mexican households. The result is a dynamic and delicious array of recipes and experiences, infusing important cultural heritage into this essential culinary record"--

1. Gabriela Castellanos

Dinner At Frida's

GABRIELA CASTELLANOS founded the Cooking Academy at Origen Restaurant in her native city of Oaxaca, Mexico. She has worked in celebrated restaurants around the world, including the Instituto Culinario de Me xico in Puebla, the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco, the EFBA in Aurillac and the Lyce e de Gascogne in Bordeaux, France. She has lived in Switzerland since 2015, where she and her husband founded El Catrin, a restaurant on the shores of Lake Geneva that serves authentic Mexican cuisine.

1. Pyet , DeSpain

Rooted in Fire

Next Level Chef winner Pyet De Spain celebrates her Mexican and Native American heritage in this collection of mouthwatering recipes, a vibrant fusion that ties us to the land and to one another. Star chef Pyet DeSpain rose to prominence as the first winner of Gordon Ramsey’s Fox television show Next Level Chef. Now, in her debut cookbook, she shares the joy of cooking fueled by her burning passion for Native American and Mexican American cuisine. Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking is a tribute to her dual heritage—a gorgeously crafted celebration of the diversity of food and the stories, traditions, culture, and profound philosophies of Indigenous people that season each meal. Pyet shows you how to incorporate a delicious range of key ingredients—from venison, dandelion greens, to sunchokes, bison, and native berries—into more than sixty fusion dishes. Family and friends will be excited to gather around the table to enjoy sweet and savory food such as:Three Sisters SaladBison and Sweet Corn SoupFry BreadMexican Chocolate & Mezcal CakeCorn Silk and Honey TeaWojapi BBQ Sauce In addition to her inventive and palate pleasing recipes, Pyet invites home cooks to honor the seasons on our beautiful Earth and connect with essential foodways. “This is more than just a cookbook,” Pyet writes. “It’s giving a voice to Indigenous people, while also highlighting the fusion of my two cultures with fire and purpose.”

Mesquite Pods to Mezcal

A fascinating insight into the evolution of Oaxacan cuisine since pre-Columbian times...it provides worthwhile sustenance on the way to addressing contemporary challenges such as food security, sovereignty, sustainability, and cultural rights. (Latin American Review of Books) The authors do not simply conduct tangible analyses of bones, ceramics, residences, fields, caves, but they also strive to show how their findings relate to broader patterns of identity, inclusion (or exclusion), movement, and connectivity...[The book] artfully gives the reader a window into centuries of foodways and stuffs in Oaxaca. (H-Environment) Oaxaca’s culinary roots indeed reach deep into the past, as is shown by the essays in this splendid collection...With novel scholarly insights on beloved traditions, this book holds much of interest, not only for archaeologists and food studies scholars, but also for aficionados of Oaxacan cuisine. (ReVista)

1. Michi , Strausfeld

Gaumenfreuden

Woher kommt die neue Begeisterung für die lateinamerikanische Küche? Peruanische Köche sind preisgekrönt und gefeiert, und die mexikanische Küche wurde zum Weltkulturerbe erklärt. Dabei sind viele der Zutaten, die aus Übersee kommen, längst gebräuchlich bei uns, nicht nur Kartoffel und Tomate, auch Avocado, Chilischote und Kakaobohne.Michi Strausfeld, die große Kennerin der lateinamerikanischen Literatur und Kultur, ist auch eine leidenschaftliche Gourmandise. Mit Vergnügen erzählt sie die Geschichte von der europäischen Entdeckung eines kulinarischen Kontinents - immerhin wollte Kolumbus eigentlich einen neuen Weg für den Gewürztransport erschließen - und den unglaublichen Fusionen, die seitdem stattgefunden haben: von der gegenseitigen Befruchtung indigener Esskultur und der kolonialen Küche während der 300-jährigen Fremdherrschaft, der Entstehung von Nationalgerichten wie »Chiles en nogada« oder »Feijoada«, von den Beigaben aus Europa, China und Afrika. Sie befragt Autoren, Kulturwissenschaftler und Küchenchefs und zeigt, wie selbstbewusst die jungen Köche und immer mehr Köchinnen aus Lateinamerika heute auftreten.Mit vielen Rezepten der aus Brasilien stammenden Fernsehköchin Sabine Hueck.