- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: University of Nevada Press (1 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0874174457
- ISBN-13: 978-0874174458
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,321,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An intimate Basque cookbook peppered with family stories and photos and jam-packed with delicious recipes. Mary Ancho Davis invites everyone to join her at her mother's table as she recalls her family's traditions and history and shares special memories from her mother Dominga's kitchen. From huge cream puffs filled with heavy cream skimmed from the top of raw milk, to recollections of ringing the large iron triangle hanging from a tree branch outside the kitchen door, in Chorizos in an Iron Skillet Ancho Davis offers wonderful details about life and meals on her family's Basque ranch. When Ancho Davis's mother emigrated to the United States from Vizcaya, Spain, she brought many traditional Basque family recipes. Soon after arriving in the vast western land of Nevada, she realized that her ancestors' culinary traditions would need to be altered and adapted in her new home. No longer were standard ingredients readily available, as they had been in the Old Country. Dominga also learned to adjust favorite recipes to accommodate the tastes of friends, neighbors, and ranch hands not familiar with Basque flavors.In this charming cookbook, Mary Ancho Davis traces a clear path from Old Country traditional dishes to their modern versions as she shares her family's recipes and details the evolution of Basque cooking in America. A personal cookbook from one Basque family, Chorizos in an Iron Skillet is also an engaging cultural study of culinary traditions that spans several generations of Basque immigration to the American West. With recipes for everything from Chicken with Chocolate and Dominga's Basque Chorizos to Dried Apricot Pie, these Basque ranch dishes offer a multitude of delicious ideas for down-home cooking. Illustrated with photographs from the Ancho family, plus helpful advice on ingredients and cooking techniques, Chorizos in an Iron Skillet is the perfect kitchen companion for filling your home with the flavors and aromas of Basque cooking.
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Charming Book that Documents a Way of Life, 6 May 2010
By marsaluna - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chorizos in an Iron Skillet: Memories and Recipes from an American Basque Daughter (Basque) (Basque Series) (Paperback)
When I travel, I like to pick up cookbooks about the regional foods and folkways of the places I visit; I got this book in Reno, Nevada. It has a lot of good recipes, but it's much more than a cookbook. It's also a charming memoir that documents the Basque-American way of life in Nevada when the author was growing up. I enjoyed learning about the Basque immigrants' attitudes toward the family, food, and the animals that surrounded them on the ranches where they worked. There are a number of other Basque cookbooks, but as far as I know, this one is unique in its emaphasis on the Basque adaptation to the milieu of the American West. The reviewer who complains about Fresca in the Sangria recipe is really rather missing the point. I give it Five Stars.
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A fabulous effort from a family friend, 25 Jan 2002
By Matthew E. Lewis - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chorizos in an Iron Skillet: Memories and Recipes from an American Basque Daughter (Basque) (Basque Series) (Paperback)
Mrs. Davis has been a friend of our family for nearly 50 years. As a child, I heard many stories about her upbringing in Battle Mountain, NV and the challenges and hardships she faced as a child. I also heard more than a few stories about her fabulous cooking. Only now, as a middle-aged man do I get to experience some of her cuisine outside of an all-too-rare visit to her kitchen.I have only recently received my copy, but the two selections I have tried so far have been unique and mouth watering. I can heartily recommend this book, both as a lover of food and as one who appreciates the stories, anecdotes, and vignettes included in this unique work.
I guarantee you'll like it.
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NOT REALLY BASQUE NOR AMERICAN BASQUE, 25 Oct 2002
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chorizos in an Iron Skillet: Memories and Recipes from an American Basque Daughter (Basque) (Basque Series) (Paperback)
Chorizos in an Iron Skillet is a disspointing cook book. I know and am very familiar with Basque cooking, therefore, the recipes here are a big let down. I had heard so much about this book before its publication and had great expectations. Mrs. Davis presents a mix of recipes of (what she refers to as) 1.old world, 2. new world adaptations, and 3.American recipes. At best there are maybe 4 or 5 recipes in the entire book that prompted any interest. It is not clear why she would even include American recipes (they're out of place in this book). There are some truly weird recipes, such as Sangria made with Fresca, and orange soda? Just because they may be serving this in some tapa bar in Bilbao or San Sebastian does not make it Basque nor does it make it good! It is very sweet that Mrs. Davis has all these wonderful memories of her childhood in Nevada but her recounting of them is rather boring and uninspired. Please skip this book.
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