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Books: Cooking by Cuisine -> Cooking Mexican
Food from My Heart: Cuisines of Mexico Remembered and Reimagined
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by:
Martinez, Zarela
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Publisher:
John Wiley and Sons
Published: June 5, 1995
ISBN: 0028603613
Format:Paperback
Pages:368
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Book Description
From Publishers Weekly
The author, proprietor of the Zarela restaurant in New York City, promises "a memoir, a guide to Mexican culinary basics, and a personal recipe collection, all interspersed with glimpse-by-glimpse evocations of Mexican life and
culture." She keeps the promise. Recipes and techniques are here in abundance, yet the book is truly for those who always wished that culinary introductions, notes and sidelights on appreciation would never end. Martinez delivers both personal
reminiscence and cultural insight with the taste and candor of an experienced hostess--a memoir of a family servant nestles up with a fiercely patriotic sidebar on the "Manana Syndrome." Raised among Sonora's ranching aristocracy ("By the time I was 14 I
was busting broncos"), she shows how she came to immerse herself in her country's food traditions and--beginning with modest catering projects--soon found herself lionized in New York by the likes of Paul Prudhomme and Craig Claiborne. Her approach is
not one of ethnic purity or "authenticity" understood narrowly; she blithely combines traditions from different regions within single recipes, "my own personal process of mestizajesic , synthesis." And, indeed, she attributes the makings of her crab
enchilada to a chef for a California restaurant chain.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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