Recipe of Memory: Five Generations of Mexican Cuisine

by Victor M. Valle, Mary Lau Valle

This text offers tips on how to prepare dishes, along with insights into the development of Mexican and Mexican-American cuisine. Ranging from the Spanish conquest of Mexico to the obsession with chips and salsa, the authors look at the influences on who ate what and where.

182 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1995

Reviews

[Lee Ecklund · Rating 5 out of 5]

There some good recipes, but what I really enjoyed was the historical context about them. I learned about groups within the Mexican culture like the Mestizas and the recipes that they created and passed down to the next generations.