The Border Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico - Softcover

Jamison, Bill; Jamison, Cheryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558321039 ISBN 13: 9781558321038

Publisher: Harvard Common Press, 1995

Synopsis

Now more than ever, Southwestern food is a hugely popular trend. As ingredients are becoming more readily available to at-home cooks, there is a great demand for simple, delicious, and authentic recipes that bring Mexican and Southwestern food to our own tables.In their James Beard Book Award-winning cookbook, authors Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison combine the best of Mexican and Southwest cooking, bringing together this large region's Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo culinary roots into one big, exuberant book - The Border Cookbook. In over 300 recipes they explore the common elements and regional differences of border cooking. They offer classic and new recipes that typify cuisines known as Tex-Mex, New Mexican, Sonoran, Cal-Mex, traditional Mexican, Gulf cuisine, and Native American; and their easy-to-follow recipes are suitable for every meal, every day of the week.

About this title

From the Back Cover

From the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, from Sonora north to Sonoma, the border region is the source of a boundless variety of spectacular food. The Border Cookbook celebrate the simple pleasures of Southwestern and Northern Mexican home-style cooking with more than 300 delectable, easy-to-prepare dishes, for special occasions and for soul-satisfying everyday eating.

The Border Cookbook is the finest collection of recipes from this great culinary area of the Americas. -From the Foreword by Mark Miller A must for every culinary library! -Rosalea Murphy, author of The Pink Adobe Cookbook

The Jamisons have captured the rustic flavors of authentic border dishes found only at family tables and culinary pit stops along the border. -Jacqueline Higuera McMahan, author of California Rancho Cooking

The Jamisons write with a no-holds-barred enthusiasm about border cooking. I know, from experience, that their food tastes exuberant, but knowing the foods story makes it that much better. -Deborah Madison, author of The Greens Cookbook

Who could be better on the border beat than Cheryl and Bill Jamison-indefatigable investigators, talented cooks, and unswerving aficionados? Like their other cookbooks, The Border Cookbook is a must for lovers of American spice and verve. -Rick Bayless, author of Authentic Mexican

Brimming with historical vignettes, tantalizing recipes, and poignant anecdotes. -Barbara Pool Fenzl, author of Southwest the Beautiful Cookbook

Cheryl and Bill Jamison make everyday home cooking an exciting adventure. The scents and flavors of authentic border dishes practically jump off the pages of this fine, big book. An outstanding achievement. -Dean Fearing, author of Dean Fearings Southwest Cuisine

About the Author

Authors of fifteen cookbook and travel guides, Cheryl and Bill Jamison write with passion and wit about barbecue, American home cooking, the food and culture of the Southwest, and tropical beach travel. Considered leading authorities on each of these topics, the Jamisons are among the nation's most-lauded culinary professionals, with honors that include four James Beard Awards, an IACP award, and numerous other awards. Bon Appetit has pronounced the Jamisons "the king and queen of grilling and smoking." They are the authors of many books, including the best-selling Smoke & Spice, which has sold over one million copies, and The Border Cookbook. When not busy researching, developing recipes, or writing, the Jamisons are frequent guest instructors at many prestigious cooking schools, including Les Gourmettes in Phoenix and Central Market's five Texas locations. Cheryl is a guest instructor at the Santa Fe School of Cooking, teaching traditional and contemporary Southwestern and Mexican cooking. She is also a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Slow Foods, and past president of Friends of the Santa Fe Area Farmers' Market and the Northern New Mexico chapter of Les Dames d'Escoffier. Bill grew up in Texas, understanding from birth that smoked brisket was the food of gods. Cheryl grew up in rural Illinois, where 'barbecue' was a Sloppy Joe, so she had some catching up to do. For two decades they have lived in Tesuque, New Mexico, just outside of Santa Fe, in a converted adobe dairy barn shaded by fruit trees.Authors of fifteen cookbook and travel guides, Cheryl and Bill Jamison write with passion and wit about barbecue, American home cooking, the food and culture of the Southwest, and tropical beach travel. Considered leading authorities on each of these topics, the Jamisons are among the nation's most-lauded culinary professionals, with honors that include four James Beard Awards, an IACP award, and numerous other awards. Bon Appetit has pronounced the Jamisons "the king and queen of grilling and smoking." They are the authors of many books, including the best-selling Smoke & Spice, which has sold over one million copies, and The Border Cookbook. When not busy researching, developing recipes, or writing, the Jamisons are frequent guest instructors at many prestigious cooking schools, including Les Gourmettes in Phoenix and Central Market's five Texas locations. Cheryl is a guest instructor at the Santa Fe School of Cooking, teaching traditional and contemporary Southwestern and Mexican cooking. She is also a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Slow Foods, and past president of Friends of the Santa Fe Area Farmers' Market and the Northern New Mexico chapter of Les Dames d'Escoffier. Bill grew up in Texas, understanding from birth that smoked brisket was the food of gods. Cheryl grew up in rural Illinois, where 'barbecue' was a Sloppy Joe, so she had some catching up to do. For two decades they have lived in Tesuque, New Mexico, just outside of Santa Fe, in a converted adobe dairy barn shaded by fruit trees.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Common Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1558321039
• ISBN 13: 9781558321038
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512