Truly Texas Mexican by Adn Medrano
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 flavor profile of indigenous Texas Mexican cooking today. Building on what he learned from his own family, Adán Medrano captures this distinctive flavor 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 flavor 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.-
Birds of the Texas Coast
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Down in the Dirt
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The Story the Bones Tell
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Equal Opportunity Hero
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Engineering the Modern American West
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The Frontier Centennial
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Artists of the Horse
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Horned Lizards
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Plants of Central Texas Wetlands
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Opus in Brick and Stone
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Brujerías
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Blackdom, New Mexico
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More Than Running Cattle
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Auto Touring America's National Parks
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Texas Natural History in the 21st Century
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The Edge Rover
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Seat of Empire
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Dance All Night
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Bronx Faces and Voices
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Dancin' in Anson
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Finding the Great Western Trail
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Little Big Bend
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Deep Time and the Texas High Plains
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Don't Count the Tortillas
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Pecans
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A Kineno's Journey
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Javelinas
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Brujerias
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Myth, Memory, and Massacre
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Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls
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Cacti of Texas
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The Wineslinger Chronicles
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Texas Quilts and Quilters
Chef and food writer Adán Medrano holds a Certificate in Culinary Arts from the Culinary Institute of America. Now living in Houston, he grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and in northern Mexico, where he developed his expertise in the flavour profile and techniques of indigenous Texas Mexican food.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780896728509 |
| ISBN 10 | 0896728501 |
| Title | Truly Texas Mexican |
| Author | Adán Medrano |
| Series | Grover E Murray Studies In The American Southwest |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Texas Tech Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2014-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |