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Historic Cookery: Authentic New Mexican Food Kindle Edition

by Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
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The classic collection of heirloom recipes featuring more than one hundred authentic dishes from New Mexico.

Traditional New Mexican cuisine isn’t the same as Mexican or Tex-Mex—instead, it’s a unique fusion of various Native American, Mexican, Spanish, European, and even North American cowboy chuckwagon foods and cooking techniques. The more than one hundred authentic New Mexican dishes in Historic Cookery take you back to the old ways of preparing food, slow-cooked with flavor and just the right finishing touch. The chile sauces and meat, poultry, fish, cheese, egg, salad, soup, bread, sandwich, dessert, pastry, beverage, and other recipes will have you cooking just like your abuela.

The first known published cookbook to focus on the distinctive dishes of this Southwestern state, Historic Cookery was written by Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert—a multilingual nutritionist who is also noted for inventing the U-shaped fried taco shell.

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    May 21, 2019
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About the Author

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert (May 16, 1894&;October 14, 1991) was an American educator, nutritionist, activist and writer. She was also the first known published author of a cookbook describing New Mexican cuisine, and changed the way the world enjoyed Mexican food by inventing the u-shaped fried taco shell. She was fluent in Spanish, English, Tewa and Tiwa. She later wrote The Good Life: New Mexico Traditions and Foods and We Fed Them Cactus.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07S2B6V1M
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gibbs Smith (May 21, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 21, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6533 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 122 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 95 ratings

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4.2 out of 5 stars
4.2 out of 5
95 global ratings
NEW MEXICAN COOK BOOK.
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NEW MEXICAN COOK BOOK.
Really cool cook book of old New Mexican cuisine!... not to be confused with Mexican cuisine. I remember my grandmother preparing many of these and or having them on the table around various holidays. A must have for any Nuevo Mexicano looking for authentic New Mexican. Most of the recipes are very simple but are very good. ¡QUE VIVA LOS HISPANOS!..and I found out I am related to her ( on my dad's side).
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LLcoolace
5.0 out of 5 stars NEW MEXICAN COOK BOOK.
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2024
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Really cool cook book of old New Mexican cuisine!... not to be confused with Mexican cuisine. I remember my grandmother preparing many of these and or having them on the table around various holidays. A must have for any Nuevo Mexicano looking for authentic New Mexican. Most of the recipes are very simple but are very good. ¡QUE VIVA LOS HISPANOS!..and I found out I am related to her ( on my dad's side).
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LLcoolace
5.0 out of 5 stars NEW MEXICAN COOK BOOK.
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2024
Really cool cook book of old New Mexican cuisine!... not to be confused with Mexican cuisine. I remember my grandmother preparing many of these and or having them on the table around various holidays. A must have for any Nuevo Mexicano looking for authentic New Mexican. Most of the recipes are very simple but are very good. ¡QUE VIVA LOS HISPANOS!..and I found out I am related to her ( on my dad's side).
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Phillip E. Andrews
5.0 out of 5 stars Updated
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2024
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If you had the paperback version of this essential New Mexico cookbook, this new hardcover edition has been updated and modernized. Makes a great gift.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic just like my Mother’s cooking
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2020
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This is the first cookbook that has recipes exactly how my mother cooked when I was growing up. It’s small and compact with just what you need to know. It’s a little jem. I’m glad I found it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars All text only
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2020
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Whited to see more pictures.
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Dolores Lucero
1.0 out of 5 stars Tiny cookbook
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2020
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Not worth the price! Recipes are ok but book is so small it's hard to read the recipes. I'm very disappointed with purchase. Never again
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Martha K.
1.0 out of 5 stars I paid for gift wrap. There was none.
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2021
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I bought this (BTW, tiny- like, 5 x 5 inches) cookbook, together with another, for my brother-in-law's birthday. I paid for gift wrap for each book. There was none. I am furious.
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namdrol
5.0 out of 5 stars History You Can Eat
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2022
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Recommend that you make the recipes before eating. Although, if you use enough NM Green Chiles, the book will taste good, if you misunderstood my headline. Let us all know!

Have fun with this book and the receipes. It will really add to the flavour and authenticity if you search for Real New Mexican Hatch Green Chiles. There is NO substitute. A greatful nation thanks you, Dr. Fabian Garcia and the Chile Pepper Institue at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces!!!
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