Truly Texas Mexican - A Native Culinary Heritage in Recipes (Hardcover)

Over thousands of years, Native Americans in what is now Texas passed down their ways of roasting, boiling, steaming, salting, drying, grinding and blending. From one generation to another, these ancestors of Texas's Mexican American community lent their culinary skills to combining native and foreign ingredients into the flavour profile of indigenous Texas Mexican cooking today. Building on what he learned from his own family, Adan Medrano captures this distinctive flavour profile in 100 kitchen-tested recipes, each with step-by-step instructions. Equally as careful with history, he details how hundreds of indigenous tribes in Texas gathered and hunted food, planted gardens and cooked. Offering new culinary perspective on well-known dishes such as enchiladas and tamales, Medrano explains the complexities of aromatic chiles and how to develop flavour through technique as much as ingredients. Sharing freely the secrets of lesser-known culinary delights, such as turcos, a sweet pork pastry served as dessert, and posole, giant white corn treated with calcium hydroxide, he illuminates the mouth-watering interconnectedness of culture and cuisine. The recipes and personal anecdotes shared in Truly Texas Mexican illuminate the role that cuisine plays in identity and community.

General

Imprint:	Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	May 2014
Authors:	Adan Medrano
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-89672-850-9
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > National & regional cuisine Books > Food & Drink > National & regional cuisine
LSN:	0-89672-850-1
Barcode:	9780896728509

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