For three years, Marilyn Tausend traveled across the United States and Mexico, talking to hundreds of Mexican and Mexican-American cooks. With the help of chef Miguel Ravago, Tausend tells the tale of these cooks, all of whom have adapted the family dishes and traditions they remember to accommodate a life considerably different from the lives of their parents and grandparents. In these pages you will find the real food eaten every day by Mexican-American families, whether they live in cities such as Los Angeles or Chicago, the border towns of Texas and Arizona, the farming communities of the Pacific Northwest, or the isolated villages of New Mexico and Colorado. Now you can re-create the vibrant flavors and rustic textures of this remarkable cuisine in your own kitchen. Most of the recipes are quite simple, and the more complex dishes, like moles and tamales, can be made in stages. So take a savory expedition across borders and generations, and celebrate the spirit and flavor of the Mexican-American table with your own family.

Cocina de la Familia/the Family Kitchen : More Than 200 Authentic Recipes from Mexican-American Home Kitchens

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Tausend, Marilyn

Ravago, Miguel

Regional & International

Simon&Schuster

A gathering of more than two hundred treasured family recipes pays tribute to Mexican-American cuisine and family mores, featuring instructions for preparing authentic Chipotle Crab Enchiladas, spicy Chicken and Garbanzo Soup, and other tasty meals. Original.

Cocina de la familia: más de 200 recetas auténticas desde cocinas mexicanas

Literature & Fiction

Atria Books

"Walking through the old wooden doors at Fonda San Miguel is like a journey back to colonial Mexico. . . . World-class Mexican art and antiques decorate the interior, and famed Mexican chefs have taught and cooked here. Acclaimed as one of the best Mexican restaurants in the country serving authentic interior food . . ." —USA Today
"The stately yet bright and colorful hacienda decor and standout Mexican-interior cooking . . . will transport you straight to Guanajuato." —Vogue
"It anchors the city as its premier Mexican restaurant institution." —The Daily Meal, which named Fonda San Miguel one of "America's 50 Best Mexican Restaurants"
Updated and reissued to celebrate the restaurant's four decades of success, Fonda San Miguel presents more than one hundred recipes. The selections include many of Fonda's signature dishes—Ceviche Veracruzano, Enchiladas Suizas, Cochinita Pibil, Pescado Tikin Xik, and Carne Asada—as well as a delicious assortment of dishes from Mexico's diverse regional cuisines. Supplementary sections contain tips on buying and cooking with the various chiles and other ingredients, along with information on basic preparation techniques, equipment, and mail-order sources. Full-color photographs illustrate special dishes, and representative works from the impressive Fonda San Miguel art collection are also featured, along with notes on the artists.

Fonda San Miguel: Forty Years of Food and Art

Gilliland, Tom

University of Texas Press

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