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Recipe of memory : five generations of Mexican cuisine
- Title
- Recipe of memory : five generations of Mexican cuisine / Victor M. Valle and Mary Lau Valle ; foreword by Elena Poniatowska.
- Author
- Valle, Victor M.
- Publication
- New York : New Press, [1995]
- New York : W.W. Norton.
- ©1995
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | TX716.M4 V35 1995 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 186 pages : illustrations, map; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Shares the contents of an heirloom chest, providing recipes, family journals, and photographs, celebration of Mexican traditions.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- cookbooks.
- Cookbooks.
- History.
- Livres de cuisine.
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Contents
- Part I. Guadalajara. A family of recipes -- Food, politics, and family at the Inn of San Felipe -- The hidden garden -- Violent consommé: the making of a mestizo cuisine -- Matters of taste and translation: ancient technique in a new world -- From holy to haute: convent cookery in Catalina's kitchen -- Beyond recipes: a woman's world -- A day in the country -- Hard times befall the San Felipe Inn -- Part II. California and its new mestizo cuisine. Reinventing home -- The industrialization of Mexican-American cuisine -- Between two worlds -- On the border -- In the suburbs: a woman's education -- Children of Mayaguel -- The persistence of purslane -- Epilogue: A cuisine without borders: a culture with two countries -- Appendix A. Capturing fire: roasting tomatoes, chiles, and spices -- Appendix B. Shopping for Mexican ingredients -- Appendix C. Weights and measures conversion table.
- ISBN
- 1565841263
- 9781565841260
- 1565841271
- 9781565841277
- LCCN
- 95010825
- OCLC
- ocm32396678
- 32396678
- SCSB-2072719
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library