Cocina esencial de México [Paperback]

This cookbook serves as a collection of fundamental recipes that covers the gastronomic map of Mexico. This is a testimony to a life dedicated to the recovery, conservation, and diffusion of Mexico’s culinary art. It includes a personal registry of meetings with cooks and food vendors throughout the nation. A modern classic of cookbooks published throughout the world,Cocina esencial de México can be as an indispensable reference for understanding how to eat and cook in Mexico. Starting with the years that were dedicated to field research in the diverse corners of the Mexican republic, Diana Kennedy presents a rich catalog of techniques, ingredients, recipes, and advice to re-create in our kitchens the aromas and flavors of one of the most varied and surprising cuisines of our planet.

Diana Kennedywent to Mexico in 1957 to marry Paul P. Kennedy, the foreign correspondent for the New York Times. There she began teaching Mexican cooking classes and published her first cookbook. She has been decorated with the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor bestowed on foreigners by the Mexican government. She lives much of the year in her ecological adobe house in Michoacan, Mexico, which also serves as a research center for Mexican cuisine.