Book

Mexican-American cuisine / edited by Ilan Stavans.

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, ©2011.

viii, 148 pages ; 25 cm.

Presents nine essays on the philosophical aspects of Mexican-American cuisine.

The Ilan Stavans library of Latino civilization

Cooking, American -- Southwestern style.

Mexican American cooking.

Hispanic Americans -- Social life and customs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Platillos principales -- Tex-Mex, Cal-Mex, New Mex, or whose Mex : notes on the historical geography of Southwestern cuisine / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- The Tex-Mex menu / Helen Simons -- Fire on the furrow : salsa wars and other battles on the new chile frontier / Kent Ian Paterson -- Cooking with chiles / Laura Esquivel -- Sazón : the flavors of culinary epistemology / Meredith E. Abarca -- Preventing obesity in Mexican-American children and adolescents / Frederick Trowbridge and Fernando Mendoza -- II. Postres -- The art of cooking / Encarnación Pinedo -- Los paleteros / Camilo Jose Vergara -- Tomato potatoe, chalupa shaloopa / Dagoberto Gilb.

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