The Poor Gringo Guide to Mexican Cooking - Softcover

Pickerel, M. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979619947 ISBN 13: 9780979619946

Publisher: Sentry Books, 2016

Synopsis

An American living in Mexico prepares traditional south-of-the-border recipes served up with a potpourri of hilarious vignettes from his profligate expatriate life.

Meet Miles Standish Pickerel: bamboozler, American ne’er-do-well, and poor gringo extraordinaire. Newly divorced, culinarily clueless, and living in Mexico with his faithful canine companion, Ladrón, he shamelessly prepares traditional Mexican cuisine from low-cost (or no-cost) ingredients. If Miles Pickerel can’t raise it, trap it, steal it, borrow it, pick it, or run it over, he doesn’t put it in his pot. Neighborhood strays and local farmers beware. His recipes redefine the meaning of eating cheap in Mexico. They include: Suicide Hen, Stingray Stew, Aztec Soup, Fired Tequila Goat, Cortez-on-Foot Burritos, Run-over Rooster, Shrimp Head Omelet, Unholy Mole, Soused Marlin, Cabbage Cakes, and Hibiscus Cooler.

About this title

About the Authors

Miles Standish Pickerel lived with his mother until he was thirty-six. After brief engagements as an adulterous husband, a neglectful father, and a larcenous employee, he unsuccessfully impersonated a cardiologist, a cattle rustler, and a visiting dignitary from Guyana. Currently he is at work on the century's first compendium of Mexican mechanics. He lives anonymously in an unnamed city south of the twenty-fifth parallel.

Susan Say-less claims she was born on the next to the last day of the year in the same town as Phineas Quimby. When not performing standup comedy, playing her tsabouna, or illustrating distasteful cookbooks, she attends the University of Arizona. She purportedly is earning a bachelor's degree in English literature. She draws her own hair.

From the Back Cover

A cookbook with an unusual protagonist preparing south-of-the-border recipes for the financially stressed, the economically depressed, and those hungry for laugh in the hard times to come. Like no cookbook ever written.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sentry Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979619947
• ISBN 13: 9780979619946
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Say-less Susana
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272