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Summary: Tastes like home!
Review: After living in California and Arizona all my life, I recently moved to the Midwest and have been homesick for all my favorite foods. This cookbook came to the rescue! The recipes are easy to follow, even the complicated ones, and they taste just like I remember. I made my first tamales for Christmas Eve and they were a huge success!
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Summary: Welcome to the REAL Mexican Flavor!!
Review: As a Mexican living in Upstate NY, far away from the mexican border where products are easily found, I consider myself lucky to keep my mexican cooking the best I can with what I find at hand.
Half of the recipes in this book are part of my family heritage and half of them I didn't know how to prepare because they are from all over Mexico (I'm from Mexico City) and I bought this book with great delight because the front cover reminded me one of the usual mexican scenes inside a family.
Once at home, I couldn't stop reading all the recipes and the details that the author gives to picture each and every dish. The stories of other families living in the US are warming and also reminded me lots of precious moments I spent with my mother watching her cooking. Thanks to her I know what I know about cooking and thanks to Marilyn Tausend I will be able to reproduce some of the recipes I didn't care to pay attention to when my mother prepared them (which I deeply regret now) as well as trying new dishes from other parts of my country.
If you want to experience the REAL Mexican Cuisine buy the book, it really does worth it. You will be introduced to the fascinating world of my food, the one that warms the heart, heals the soul and keeps people together and in touch.
Marilyn, you did a GREAT job, thanks for caring this much. This book will be always with me along with my mother's recipes.
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Summary: Mine was in Spanish!
Review: I had no idea the cookbook was going to be in Spanish and that was rather a surprise! Maybe it said somewhere on the page, but I'll be darned if I could find it. So, I haven't made any recipes yet, but it did cause me to decide to brush up on my long forgotten Spanish. Good way to learn, I guess!
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Summary: Mine was in Spanish!
Review: I had no idea the cookbook was going to be in Spanish and that was rather a surprise! Maybe it said somewhere on the page, but I'll be darned if I could find it. So, I haven't made any recipes yet, but it did cause me to decide to brush up on my long forgotten Spanish. Good way to learn, I guess!
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Summary: Best Mexican Cookbook on the market!
Review: I've tried them all, being that my significant other is from Mexico, I'm always looking for true, traditional Mexican recipes and this book is it! Truly the best I've seen!!! Excellent explainations of each dish, its origens, and how to serve it. I highly reccommend it!
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Summary: Best Mexican Cookbook on the market!
Review: I've tried them all, being that my significant other is from Mexico, I'm always looking for true, traditional Mexican recipes and this book is it! Truly the best I've seen!!! Excellent explainations of each dish, its origens, and how to serve it. I highly reccommend it!
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Summary: Cocina de la Familia is a favorite of this Familia!
Review: Marilyn Tausend tells the real story of what Mexicans eat at home and what a delicious story it is! There is none of that goopy cheese-laden pseudo-food that passes for "Mexican" in inferior emporiums. What you have here is the real enchilada. As a Southern Californian "of a certain age", who is only Mexican by taste buds, I can attest to the authenticity of these recipes. As a retired teaching chef, I can promise great-tasting dishes from Cocina de la Familia. Because recipes are only a guide, most - if not all - of these dishes take kindly to alterations, substitutions and tinkering. Caldillo de Papas is wonderful made as directed. It is equally good made with large chunks of beef, additions of tomatillos, carrots and zucchini, topped with cilantro and a swirl of salsa fresca. Chilaquiles are usually made with leftover corn tortillas, but when I substituted some sliced tamales, sauced it with the Salsa Verde (pg. 215)our breakfast guests broke into cheers! This is a book to own yourself and a book to give to those you love -- especially if you want to eat well when visiting them. Bravo Marilyn. Please write Volume Two soon.
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Summary: Cocina de la Familia is a favorite of this Familia!
Review: Marilyn Tausend tells the real story of what Mexicans eat at home and what a delicious story it is! There is none of that goopy cheese-laden pseudo-food that passes for "Mexican" in inferior emporiums. What you have here is the real enchilada. As a Southern Californian "of a certain age", who is only Mexican by taste buds, I can attest to the authenticity of these recipes. As a retired teaching chef, I can promise great-tasting dishes from Cocina de la Familia. Because recipes are only a guide, most - if not all - of these dishes take kindly to alterations, substitutions and tinkering. Caldillo de Papas is wonderful made as directed. It is equally good made with large chunks of beef, additions of tomatillos, carrots and zucchini, topped with cilantro and a swirl of salsa fresca. Chilaquiles are usually made with leftover corn tortillas, but when I substituted some sliced tamales, sauced it with the Salsa Verde (pg. 215)our breakfast guests broke into cheers! This is a book to own yourself and a book to give to those you love -- especially if you want to eat well when visiting them. Bravo Marilyn. Please write Volume Two soon.
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Summary: 5 Sarts for Cocina De La Familia
Review: This book has excellant recipes, which can be made with ingredients found at most stores. I love the stories found with each recipe. The stories tell the history of the recipe and Ms. Tausend's experience with the authors' of the recipes. It is a great look into the Mexican and Mexican-American culture.
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Summary: So good I'm giving it to friends who like to cook
Review: This is simply what I think a good cookbook should be. I have two problems with most cookbooks. I often find they contain a few great recipes but many that I don't want to try so the book just takes up space on the shelf. The second problem is some have great recipes that are too time consuming. I was attracted to this book at a local bookshop by the number of recipes that were appealing and have not been disappointed. We have tried about 8 so far, and 5 were outstanding. Most are easy and relatively quick. In addition to recipes for standard favorite mexican dishes there are a number of surprises. Chicken in a Red Sauce of Pumpkin Seed and Dried Corn was great. Very surprising,unique flavors. I also liked Three-Days-in-the-Making Beef Burritos although we did soft tacos with this instead. Chicken in a Piquant Tomato Sauce was also excellent.
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