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Chef Ricardo Muņoz
Photo By Ignacio
Urquiza
My exciting news this week is that my good friend and one of Mexico's best known chefs, teacher and cookbook author, Ricardo Muņoz Zurita is now working with me on my new book, Three Cultures: One Cuisine. His background on Mexican regional foods and its history will be invaluable to me. Many of you who have been on my trips to Mexico, will have met him as he for years has taught classes for me. Although Ricardo has written many cookbooks in Spanish, including his invaluable Encyclopedico de Gastronomia Mexicana, this will be his first collaboration on a book in English.
During the last year, Marilyn has collaorated on two collections of recipes, the just published Williams-Sonoma Baking Book published by Oxmoor House, which included four of her favorite Mexican dessert recipes from two of her books. Two of these are included on our website under Cooking, the Mexican Chocolate Cake with ancho Whipped Cream (thanks to Elaine Gonzalez), and the Rum-Raisin Cheesecake (thanks, Sue Goldberg). Both of these will make tasty additions to autumn holiday meals.
Marilyn also contributed a Spanish recipe for Catalan Pasta with Garlic Sauce that was included in the cookbook Cooking with Les Dames D'Escoffier, published by Sasquatch Books. The book includes recipes from well-known culinary professionals such as Alice Waters, Susan Feniger, Anne Willian, Marion Cunningham and Marcella Hazen and many other women who now literally shape the way we eat today. This is a cookbook that should be in every home cook's collection.
Congratulations to Rick Bayless for becoming the very first Top Chef Master! It was a thrilling ride, Rick. If you missed it, check Bravo TV for listings of repeat episodes.
Chef Roberto Santibaņez
Roberto Santibaņez was awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural Flavors of Passions Awards in Dallas, TX to celebrate excellence in Latino Cuisine. He is finishing his second cookbook, due out fall 2010 and has opened a new restaurant, FONDA at 434 7th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn --718 369-3144. Buen Provecho.
Chef Roberto Santibaņez provided his culinary expertise for Cinco de Mayo on the Today Show (skirt steak clip--Chef LaLa also has a video clip), Living Today on Martha Stewart Living Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio, and for an article, "Cinco de Mayo Made Easy," in the Spring/Summer 2009 issue of Girlfriend Getways.
The University of California Press has contracted with Marilyn for a new book entitled Cocina Mexicana: Three Cultures, One Cuisine." The book will look to the past to understand the interplay between historical and contemporary Mexican cuisine. Marilyn will interview indigenous cooks she has met over the past 20 years to explore and share their cooking the way their familes have cooked throughout generations, but now with the additions of Old World foods. It will be a book about cooking through the ages with personal stories and recipes from those cooks of Spanish and/or other European descent who have significantly altered the Mexican cuisine, as well as multitudes of Africans who populated Mexico at the same time as the Spanish. It will then lead to the Mestizos who now cook with an amalgamation of both new and old world cultures and cuisines.
Rancho Gordo New World Specialty Food Specializing in beans, Steve Santo promotes and cultivates beans from the Americas. Check out his passionate mission and his heirloom beans, dried corn, chiles and other products at Rancho Gordo New World Specialty Food.Marilyn especially likes his negro criollo beans from Hidalgo, which are raised by small farmers in this poverty-stricken state.
Purcell Mountain Farms Purcell Mountain Farm is a family-operated farm located on one of the high benches above the Kootenai River Valley at the foothills of the Purcell Mountain Range. It is nestled in the Northeastern-most part of Idaho. Their selection of different varieities of corn is impressive and I am now using their red corn and ground meal.Purcell Mountain Farms
Melissa Guerra hales from Texas and sells Mexican cookware and ingredients from her site at Melissa Guerra.
It's About Thyme, Austin Texas
I get my hoja santa plants here and they also have Mexican oregano and epazote. It's About Thyme
Native Seeds/Search, Tuscon, Arizona
They carry seeds for epazote, chiles and various Mexican herbs. Native Seeds
Abundant Life Seeds, Cottage Grove, OR
A good source of organic seeds, including epazote, tomatillos, amaranth and purslane. Abundant Life Seeds
Seeds of Change, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Heirloom seeds of many essential Mexican herbs and plants. Seeds of Change
Johnny's Selected Seeds, Winslow, Maine
A good variety of herb and vegetable seeds, including epazote, and a small squash similar to one in Mexico. Johnny's Selected Seeds
The Mozarella Company, Dallas, Texas
Paula Lambert makes some good queso fresco-type cheeses, as well as a cacciota which is a good substitute for Chihuahua. The Mozarella Company
Frontera Kitchens, Chicago, Illinois
Rick Bayless's site carries many of the dried and canned ingredients, as well as specialized cooking equipment. Frontera Kitchens
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Marilyn
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