Food from My Heart: Cuisines of Mexico Remembered and Reimagined - Hardcover

Martinez, Zarela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025804715 ISBN 13: 9780025804715

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1992

Synopsis

More than 175 recipes for Mexican dishes is complemented by a discussion of how food fits into Mexicans' daily lives, their religion, the way they court, and the way they mourn.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Sonora, Mexico, Zarela Martínez has lived in Guadalajara and El Paso. She has owned her critically acclaimed restaurant, Zarela, since 1987. She lives in New York City, where she is working on her second book.

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.
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About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0025804715
• ISBN 13: 9780025804715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320