My Mexico : a culinary odyssey with recipes

176 Pages·2013·6.47 MB·English

by  Kennedy

Also by the Author
The Cuisines of Mexico
The Tortilla Book
Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico
(published later as Mexican Regional Cooking) Nothing Fancy
The Art of Mexican Cooking
The Essential Cuisines of Mexico
(a compilation of The Cuisines of Mexico, The Tortilla Book, and Recipes from
the Regional Cooks of Mexico, with new recipes) From My Mexican Kitchen:
Techniques and Ingredients
Oaxaca al gusto
PRAISE FOR My Mexico
“Every time Diana Kennedy publishes a new book I am delighted. She excites
my palate with exotic ingredients and brings me into her incredibly informative
world of cooking and foraging. Furthermore, she is a purist and an
environmentalist—qualities which I greatly admire.”
ALICE WATERS, OWNER OF CHEZ PANISSE AND AUTHOR OF CHEZ
PANISSE COOKING AND THE ART OF SIMPLE FOOD
“This is a cookbook to be read without missing a page, not only to savor—and
why not try—the wondrous recipes that Diana Kennedy has collected in her
wanderings of Mexico’s backlands, but also to travel with this intrepidly
adventurous author through a fast-changing country that risks losing its soul if it
loses its culinary culture. She at least is doing her best to ensure this does not
happen by tracing, tasting, recording, and preserving its most authentic cuisine.
And reassuringly, in doing so, she demonstrates that, behind the country’s rush
to modernize, Mexico still remains magically original.”
ALAN RIDING, AUTHOR OF DISTANT NEIGHBORS: A PORTRAIT OF THE
MEXICANS
“Open any pages of My Mexico and be transported to a waking dream.”
FOOD AND WINE
“No other Mexican than our dear Diana could ever take the reader on so
intimate and delicious a journey through the villages and towns of Mexico,
where cooking is still a sacred art and recipes are handed down from generation
to generation.”
LAURA ESQUIVEL, AUTHOR OF LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
“In a deeply knowledgeable celebration of the diverse regional cuisines of
Mexico, acclaimed gastronome Kennedy presents a tour de force, with the
emphasis on authenticity. She incorporates family heirloom recipes . . . with
traditional signature dishes of various locales, as well as adaptations of
restaurant favorites and classics collected over her forty-year sojourn south of
the border.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Many of these recipes are unusual and have not been recorded anywhere else.
Kennedy is passionate about preserving these historical recipes—and indeed
whatever culinary traditions still remain as industrialization and development
overtake the country—and she has followed her quest from large, thriving city
market-places to tiny, remote villages. Essential.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL
THE WILLIAM & BETTYE NOWLIN SERIES
in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
MY MEXICO
A Culinary Odyssey with Recipes
BY DIANA KENNEDY
WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR
UPDATED EDITION
University of Texas Press
Austin
Copyright © 1998, 2013 by Diana Kennedy All rights reserved
First edition, 1998
University of Texas Press edition, 2013
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kennedy, Diana.
My Mexico : a culinary odyssey with recipes / by Diana Kennedy — Updated edition.
p. cm — (The William and Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western
Hemisphere) Includes indices.
ISBN 978-0-292-74840-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Cooking, Mexican. 2. Mexico—Social life and
customs. I. Title.
TX716.M4K467 2013
641.5972—dc23 2013000936
ISBN 978-0-292-75446-1 (library e-book)
ISBN 978-0-292-75447-8 (individual e-book) DOI:10.7560/748408
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE WESTERN CENTER AND ITS PACIFIC COAST
The States of
MICHOACÁN
MORELIA AND TACÁMBARO
JALISCO
A JOURNEY NORTH: THE BAJÍO TO THE NORTHERN PLAINS
The States of
GUANAJUATO, SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, COMONFORT
AGUASCALIENTES
ZACATECAS
COAHUILA
CHIHUAHUA
THE CENTRAL HUB
The States of
HIDALGO
THE STATE OF MEXICO
MORELOS
PUEBLA
THE GULF COAST
The States of
VERACRUZ
TABASCO
CAMPECHE
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COAST
The States of
GUERRERO
OAXACA
A MISCELLANY OF CULINARY EXPERIENCES
RARITIES
MUSHROOMS
OLD MEXICAN COOKBOOKS
BASIC INFORMATION
RECIPE INDEX
GENERAL INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
MY GREAT INDEBTEDNESS TO THOSE WHO ENCOURAGED me,
contributed recipes, or helped me as I journeyed once again around Mexico,
especially: Violet Gershenson; Carmen Ramírez Degollado; María Dolores
Torres Yzabal; Pina Hamilton de Córdoba, Oaxaca; Oscar Kaufman, Campeche;
Fernando del Moral Muriel, Aguascalientes; María Redondo de Williams;
Guadalupe López de Lara de Zorilla; Lic. Antonio Tiro y Sra.
I am most grateful to my editor at the University of Texas Press, Casey
Kittrell, for agreeing to republish this book. I also wish to thank Ellen McKie
and Victoria Davis.