The Poor Gringo Guide to Mexican Cooking - Hardcover

Pickerel, M S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0979619920 ISBN 13: 9780979619922

Publisher: Great West Pub, 2009

Synopsis

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, Ladron, he shamelessly prepares traditional Mexican cuisine from low-cost (or no-cost) ingredients. If Miles Pickerel cannot raise it, trap it, steal it, borrow it, pick it, or run it over, he does not 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 Hibiscus Cooler.

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Review

"Hilarious ... A Mexican Joy of Cooking run amuck ..." - Buen Provecho! ..". Disgraceful ... a desecration of Mexico and its cuisine ... this gringo should be shot and deported ..." - Former Mexican ambassador to Tuvalu "A crazy gringo with a recipe for skullduggery ..." - The Chili Insider "Sebastian Dangerfield meets Diana Kennedy ... A bean burrito will never taste the same ..." - Gourmand Magazine"

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Great West Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979619920
• ISBN 13: 9780979619922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272