Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City's Streets, Markets and Fondas

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In this book, journalist Lesley Tllezwho also runs her own food tour company in Mexico Citytakes you through the city's most classic dishes, offering recipes from her favorite haunts on the streets, in city markets, and in small, homestyle fondas.

Many of these dishes are items Americans may not recognize: the football-shaped, bean-stuffed corn tlacoyo, topped with cactus and salsa; the tortas bulging with turkey confit and a peppery herb called ppalo; beer-braised rabbit, slow-cooked until tender. The book ends on a personal note, highlighting the creative, Mexican-inspired disheslike roasted poblano oatmealthat Lesley cooks at home in New York with ingredients she came to know in Mexico.

With more than 100 recipes, on-location photography and text written in a friendly, personal tone, Eat Mexico is a must for anyone who loves Mexico, its food and unique urban culture.

Author Bio

Lesley Tellez grew up in a Mexican-American home in California and moved to Mexico in 2009. Before long, she knew the city's network of street vendors, trained at one of Mexico's premier heritage cooking schools, and started her blog, The Mija Chronicles, which was selected by Saveur magazine as one of the top culinary travel blogs in the US: www.themijachronicles.com.