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Books: Cooking by Cuisine -> Cooking American
El Charro Café Cookbook: Flavors of Tucson from America's Oldest Family-Operated Mexican Restaurant
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by:
Stern, Jane
Stern, Michael
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Publisher:
Rutledge Hill Press
Published: November 30, 2002
ISBN: 1558539921
Format:Hardcover
Pages:232
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Book Description
Product Description:
A Roadfoodand#153; Cookbook
The colorful history of El Charro Caf and the 150 recipes for vibrant, exciting Mexican food make this book as unique and entertaining as the 80-year-old restaurant itself. It is rumored that
in the 1940s, founder Monica Flin would sit on the El Charro patio, sipping martinis from teacups and playing cards with John Wayne, who was in Tucson to film westerns. Today the restaurant is run by Carlotta Flores and her husband, Ray. The El Charro
Caf, America's oldest family-operated Mexican restaurant, is located in a house built in the 1890s by Monica's father (who was also Carlotta's great-grandfather). The restaurant's signature dish is Carne Seca Beef, a Tucson passion. The beef is cured
high above the restaurant's patio where strips of thin-sliced tenderloin hang in an open metal cage.
Old favorites and creative new Mexican dishes that are enjoyable to cook and to serve fill the book.
The greatest restaurants in America
are its wonderful independent regional restaurants. And there are no greater experts on America's regional restaurants than Michael and Jane Stern. "Coast to coast," said the New York Times, "they know where to find the freshest lobster rolls, the
fluffiest pancakes, the crispiest catfish." Rutledge Hill Press is launching a new series of Roadfoodand#153; Cookbooks, each with recipes, pictures, and the history of one of America's greatest regional restaurants.
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