Alfonso Morales: Paul Strand in Mexico
A beautiful, huge book that includes a DVD of his film made in Mexico. (*****)
Katherine Gustafson: Change Comes to Dinner: How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers, and Other Innovators Are Revolutionizing How America Eats
It all started with beans! A great book about food that's an enjoyable read with great topics. And Rancho Gordo figures prominently in the story. (*****)
Kris Hoogerhyde: Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones: 90 Recipes for Making Your Own Ice Cream and Frozen Treats from Bi-Rite Creamery
Recipes from my favorite ice cream shop. It's great when nice people do great things and get acknowledged for it. You deserve this book! Get it and David Lebovitz' Perfect Scoop and your ice cream library will be complete. (*****)
John Coe Robbins: Maya Lord
Great read. Historical fiction about Gonzalo Guerrero and Jeronimo, a stranded soldier and priest, who become slaves in pre-conquest Yucatan and how their perceptions change. I love the comparisons of Mayan sacrifice to the Spanish Inquisition. A super story and a super storyteller. This should make a great movie. (*****)
Douglas Woods: The California Casa
HUGE celebration of Spanish Revival architecture. Not all the examples work but when they do, my heart breaks a little.
Andrés Reséndez: A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
A great book about the journey of Cabeza de Vaca. You couldn't make this stuff up. I love it because it's shared history of the US and Mexico.
Ioan Grillo: El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
An easier and less depressing read than you'd think. It's a good overview of the scene in Mexico and brings home how much of this is our problem as well as Mexico's.
Anyone who thinks there's an easy solution is nuts. (****)
Gary Paul Nabhan: Desert Terroir: Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands (Ellen)
My favorite writer writes what is possibly my favorite book. It's hard to not want to go for a hike after reading this. (*****)
Dolores Cakebread: The Cakebread Cellars American Harvest Cookbook: Celebrating Wine, Food, and Friends in the Napa Valley
Another great book from the kitchens of Cakebread Wineries. (*****)
Patrick Dennis: Little Me : The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, Belle Poitrine (as told to Patrick Dennis)
I think this is my desert-island book. Ten times as funny as Auntie Mame, especially if you love old Hollywood. (*****)
Edna Kimbro: The California Missions: History, Art and Preservation (Conservation & Cultural Heritage)
First rate mix of coffee table book and well-written history. (*****)
Mourad Lahlou: Mourad: New Moroccan
Every page seems to beg me to come to the kitchen. It's so nice to see someone talented hit a home run. (*****)
Tom Waits: Hard Ground
But for the grace of God, there go I. Incredible, intense portraits with poems by Tom Waits. (*****)
Paula Wolfert: The Food of Morocco
Every cuisine deserves such a beautiful treatment! I can't wait to bring out the tagines and get started. (*****)
J. M. G. Le Clezio: The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations
What if there hadn't been a conquest? How far would the Amerindian culture have gone? (*****)
Charles C. Mann: 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
A follow up to his seminal, 1491.
Fany Gerson: Paletas: Authentic Recipes for Mexican Ice Pops, Shaved Ice & Aguas Frescas
Fany is my new hero and her new book is shorter, but just as good, as her first, My Sweet Mexico.
James Oles: Frida Kahlo: Her Photos
I was really getting tired of all the Frida fans but now I'm giving in and just enjoying it. (*****)
Original Album Series
Tom Waits: Original Album Series (*****)
Evolucion: 20 Anos De Toto La Momposina
Toto La Momposina: Evolucion: 20 Anos De Toto La Momposina (****)
Hecho En Puerto Rico
Willie Colon: Hecho En Puerto Rico (*****)
Este Es Mi Mariachi
Mariachi Cobre: Este Es Mi Mariachi (*****)
Mi Tierra
Susana Harp: Mi Tierra (*****)
Ay
Astrid Hadid: Ay (*****)
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Beyond the Chia Pet, chia seeds have a place in your home.
Apparently, the gelatinous drink made from soaking the seeds in water for about 30 minutes, contains Omega 3 and other nutritive things we need. I know nothing of health or nutrition but I do know once you get past the texture, a fresh glass of chia is refreshing and welcome.
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You can buy Omega 3 capsules at Costco if you're that worried about it. Are you going to start selling seeds now? I can just imagine the Chia-ade samples. You'll have to give those out yourself. I don't see that being as sexy as the beans samples.
Posted by: Grant | July 09, 2007 at 02:15 PM
So do you eat the seeds, too? Or strain them out?
Crunchy, like passion vine seeds?
What does it taste like? Or is it just a texture thing?
So many questions!
Posted by: erik_flannestad | July 10, 2007 at 10:19 AM
I want to say slimy but I'm afraid it would turn you away. But it is a bit. It's still oddly refreshing and a nice treat in the heat.
Posted by: Steven Sando | July 10, 2007 at 01:16 PM
I'm not afraid of slimy, except in pie filling.
Okra, Chia, do your worst!
Show me one of those bizarre fluorescent red, over-gelatinized strawberry pies from the grocery store, and I run quaking in fear. What alien slime is that?
Posted by: erik_flannestad | July 11, 2007 at 11:30 AM
can you eat chia seeds without soaking them?
I just sprinkle them over my food, is that o.k. or is it better for you to soak them?
Posted by: heather davis | August 07, 2007 at 09:22 AM