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

Martinez, Zarela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025804715 ISBN 13: 9780025804715

Publisher: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S., 1992

Synopsis

Containing more than 200 recipes, this book is a chronicle of the development of Zarela Martinez's cooking, describes her childhood and the foods of her family, the influences of other regions when she went away to school, and continues up to when she opened her own restaurant, Zarela. In addition to the detailed information on what it means to be Mexican, and how that impacts on Mexican cooking, there are sections on the primary ingredients of Mexican cooking, both indigenous and imported, and the roles they play. Zarela also describes Mexican religious celebrations and the way Mexicans socialize and eat.

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From the Back Cover:

Lavish Praise for Food from My Heart "There's as much for the serious reader in Zarela Martínez's book Food From My Heart as for the serious cook. Martínez's memoirs of growing up in Mexico...make great armchair reading..." —Los Angeles Times "Restaurateur Zarela Martínez does double duty in Food From My Heart, writing brilliantly about people and culture while demonstrating how to make quite fabulous dishes." —Cosmopolitan "Zarela Martínez is an absolute genius with flavors and this book is a great guide to her talent. I count it as one of the most interesting and invaluable additions to my library, which dates almost forty years." —Craig Claiborne Food and life are inseparable in Mexico—not just eating to live but eating to celebrate, to come together, to worship God and spirit. In Food From My Heart, Zarela Martínez describes the connection between Mexican culture and Mexican food—a collision of Old and New World ingredients, and the culinary influences of a constantly shifting ethnic mosaic. Through the telling of her own story, Martínez reveals the inextricable bond that exists between food and religion and the way Mexicans mark birth, death, marriage, and the daily business of living. Drawing upon the influences of friends, family, and traditional foods from many regions in Mexico, Martínez has created her own personal style of cooking: imaginative and highly flavorful, easy to prepare, and evocative of the classic Mexican cooking upon which it is based. It is all brought together—the traditional and the new—in the form of memoir, stories, and more than 175 recipes to create this unique cookbook.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0025804715
• ISBN 13: 9780025804715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320