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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There's no one as obnoxious as the repenting sinner, but I'm just nuts about quinoa. It's healthy, filling, delicious and relatively inexpensive.
Imagine the nutrional powerhouse of chicken stock, beans, quinoa, tomatoes and some potatoes. And it tastes great. You don't get too many deals like that in this life.
As a grain, it's fine but I think quinoa really shines when you use it in a soup like this.
OK- I'll shut up about it, for a while anyway.
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Is there a recipe for this? Yum.
Posted by: Nicole | June 07, 2011 at 09:18 PM
Yes...recipe please!
Posted by: Sherill | June 08, 2011 at 06:30 AM
Yup, another recipe request! :)
Posted by: Lalahartma | June 08, 2011 at 06:33 AM
I just dumped all the ingredients in a pot. The chicken stock was from a poached chicken earlier in the week. The tomatoes were canned, the potatoes and quinoa were raw and the beans were previously cooked. Everything was swinging after about 20 minutes simmering.
Posted by: STEVE SANDO | June 08, 2011 at 08:53 AM
Oh my God this looks so good and i`m sure that it is delicious too. I think that this is a easy recipe so i will give it a try, thanks a lot for sharing.
Posted by: mobile | August 01, 2011 at 11:01 PM