Hispanic Heritage Cookbooks
Discover vibrant Hispanic flavors with these cookbooks, offering authentic recipes, cooking tips, and cultural insights from diverse regions.
Treasures of the Mexican Table: Classic Recipes, Local Secrets
Although many of us can rattle off our favorite authentic Mexican dishes, we might be hard pressed to name more than ten. Which is preposterous, given that Mexico has a rich culinary history stretching back thousands of years. For the last decade, Pati Jinich has sought out the culinary treasures of her home country, from birria, to salsa macha, to coyotas, to carne asada. Many of these dishes are local specialties, heirlooms passed down through generations, unknown outside of their original regions. Others have become national sensations. Each recipe is a classic. Each one comes with a story told in Pati's warm, relatable style. And each has been tested in Pati's American kitchen to ensure it is the best of its kind. Together, these essential recipes paint a vivid picture of the richness of Mexico.
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Digital Book Number: DB108967
Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America
The nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author of ¡Ask a Mexican! presents a fascinating and tasty trip through the history and culture of Mexican food in this country, uncovering great stories and charting the cuisine's tremendous popularity in el Norte.
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Digital Book Number: DBC10435
Cuisine Latina: Fresh Tastes and a World of Flavors from Michy's Miami Kitchen
Chef-owner of restaurants in Miami, Key Largo, and Cancun offers dozens of recipes inspired by traditional Hispanic cuisine. Provides suggestions for appetizers, soups, salads, and main courses, including fried calamari with chile-coconut sauce; white gazpacho with almonds, grapes, and cucumbers; green papaya salad; empanadas; and arroz con pollo. 2008.
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Digital Book Number: DB071326
Beyond Rice and Beans: The Caribbean Latino Guide to Healthy Eating with Diabetes (in Spanish & English)
Bilingual guide by the American Diabetes Association. Presents nutritional information, exchange lists, and sample meal plans for preparing Latino cuisine from the Caribbean. In English and Spanish. 2006.
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Digital Book Number: DB067996
My Mexico City kitchen: Recipes and Convictions
Inspired by the flavors, ingredients, and flair of culinary and cultural hotspot Mexico City, Gabriela Cámara's style of fresh-first, vegetable-forward, legume-loving, and seafood-centric Mexican cooking is a siren call to home cooks who crave authentic, on-trend recipes they can make with confidence and regularity. With 150 recipes for Basicos (basics), Desayunos (breakfasts), Primeros (starters), Platos Fuertos (mains), and Postres (sweets), Mexican food-lovers will find all the dishes they want to cook-from Chilaquiles Verdes to Chiles Rellenos and Flan de Cajeta-and will discover many sure-to-be favorites, such as her signature tuna tostadas. More than 150 arresting images capture the rich culture that infuses Cámara's food and a dozen essays detail the principles that distinguish her cooking, from why non-GMO corn matters to how everything can be a taco. With celebrated restaurants in Mexico City and San Francisco, Cámara is the most internationally recognized figure in Mexican cuisine, and her innovative, simple Mexican food is exactly what home cooks want to cook.
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Digital Book Number: DB115565
¡Viva tequila!: Cocktails, Cooking, and Other Agave Adventures
With a festive blend of inspired recipes for fabulous drinks and dishes, lively personal anecdotes, spicy cultural history, and colorful agave folk art, proverbs, and lore, America's premier tequila expert shows us how to savor the most Mexican of all libations. Variant title: ¡Viva tequila! : cocktails, cooking, and other agave adventures. Adult.
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Digital Book Number: DBC18865