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

Martínez, Zarela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0028603613 ISBN 13: 9780028603612

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1995

Synopsis

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 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.

Synopsis:

More than 175 recipes for Mexican dishes are complemented by a discussion of how food fits into the daily lives, religion, and culture of the Mexican people.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0028603613
• ISBN 13: 9780028603612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346