“Every time Diana Kennedy publishes a new book I am delighted. She excites my palate with exotic ingredients and brings me into her incredibly informative world of cooking and foraging. Furthermore, she is a purist and an environmentalist—qualities which I greatly admire.”
ALICE WATERS, OWNER OF CHEZ PANISSE AND AUTHOR OF CHEZ PANISSE COOKING AND THE ART OF SIMPLE FOOD
“This is a cookbook to be read without missing a page, not only to savor—and why not try—the wondrous recipes that Diana Kennedy has collected in her wanderings of Mexico’s backlands, but also to travel with this intrepidly adventurous author through a fast-changing country that risks losing its soul if it loses its culinary culture. She at least is doing her best to ensure this does not happen by tracing, tasting, recording, and preserving its most authentic cuisine. And reassuringly, in doing so, she demonstrates that, behind the country’s rush to modernize, Mexico still remains magically original.”
ALAN RIDING, AUTHOR OF DISTANT NEIGHBORS: A PORTRAIT OF THE MEXICANS
“Open any pages of My Mexico and be transported to a waking dream.”
FOOD AND WINE
“No other Mexican than our dear Diana could ever take the reader on so intimate and delicious a journey through the villages and towns of Mexico, where cooking is still a sacred art and recipes are handed down from generation to generation.”
LAURA ESQUIVEL, AUTHOR OF LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
“In a deeply knowledgeable celebration of the diverse regional cuisines of Mexico, acclaimed gastronome Kennedy presents a tour de force, with the emphasis on authenticity. She incorporates family heirloom recipes . . . with traditional signature dishes of various locales, as well as adaptations of restaurant favorites and classics collected over her forty-year sojourn south of the border.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Many of these recipes are unusual and have not been recorded anywhere else. Kennedy is passionate about preserving these historical recipes—and indeed whatever culinary traditions still remain as industrialization and development overtake the country—and she has followed her quest from large, thriving city market-places to tiny, remote villages. Essential.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL