Cocina De La Familia: More Than 200 Authentic Recipes from Mexican-American Home Kitchens
Forget about the food you eat in what pass for Mexican  restaurants in America; cleanse your palate, then come to this book.  For Marilyn Tausend reveals the truth, the whole truth: within these  pages are the foods eaten in Mexican American households throughout the  United States. After years of traveling all over Mexico (she coauthoredMexico the Beautiful Cookbook), meeting the best Mexican cooks  and cooking teachers, and years of leading cooking tours to Mexico to  share all that she had discovered, Marilyn Tausend came home, back to  the U.S.--back to her roots, which include a childhood spent shoulder-to-shoulder with Mexican fieldworkers on farmlands throughout the West,  sharing their food.Of the 13 million Americans who think of themselves as Mexican  Americans, what, Tausend wondered, are they cooking at home today? And  what she discovered as she crisscrossed the U.S. was that their roots  run deep; these families stick together and trace their heritage back  to the regions of Mexico from which they sprang, and the food tells the  story. Mind you, a little Coca-Cola might get mixed in with a dish  today, and canola oil might well be used instead of lard; after all,  times change, and people change with them. But some elements, Tausend  discovered, stay basically the same: a strong sense of family and a  delight in bringing a big family together to eat. Crack open this book,  use the recipes, and fill your house full of the love that comes from  serving--and eating--real food. Let Marilyn Tausend show you how; you  couldn't be in better hands.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.