- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Red Crane Books (1 May 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1878610511
- ISBN-13: 978-1878610515
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 20.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,204,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book features a truly unique collection of over 190 recipes from the Yucatan region of Mexico, garnered from home kitchens and comedores of rural market towns. The author seeks the out-of-the-way eating establishments, and gives us an inside look into a variety of kitchens from Mayan families and ladino fisherman to American expatriates.
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The most slap-dash cookbook I've ever encountered.,
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This review is from: Yucatan Cookbook: Recipes and Tales (Paperback)
Have you ever cooked a pig's ear? Would you like to know how? You won't learn from the Yucatan Cookbook, unless you can divine more from the words "boil in salted water until done. Chop" than I can. No advice for the poor unenelightened gringo as to how long that might take, or what attributes one might look for in a properly cooked pig's ear. This sort of sloppiness is rampant in this slap-dash cookbook. A recipe for cooking beans never mentions water. More than one recipe requires you to "Prepare chilies as in the recipe for iguana," which comes later in the book and for which no page number is given. In at least one place, a page number is supposed to be given, but it is listed as 00. (The editing, clearly, is as sloppy as the writing.) I confess that I have tried no recipes from this book, but that is because I am fairly confident they would not work. As a culinary travelogue of Mexico the book is (at times) interesting. But if you want a usable cookbook of Yucatan cuisine, I suggest you look elsewhere.
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The most slap-dash cookbook I've ever encountered.,
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This review is from: Yucatan Cookbook: Recipes and Tales (Paperback)
Have you ever cooked a pig's ear? Would you like to know how? You won't learn from the Yucatan Cookbook, unless you can divine more from the words "boil in salted water until done. Chop" than I can. No advice for the poor unenelightened gringo as to how long that might take, or what attributes one might look for in a properly cooked pig's ear. This sort of sloppiness is rampant in this slap-dash cookbook. A recipe for cooking beans never mentions water. More than one recipe requires you to "Prepare chilies as in the recipe for iguana," which comes later in the book and for which no page number is given. In at least one place, a page number is supposed to be given, but it is listed as 00. (The editing, clearly, is as sloppy as the writing.) I confess that I have tried no recipes from this book, but that is because I am fairly confident they would not work. As a culinary travelogue of Mexico the book is (at times) interesting. But if you want a usable cookbook of Yucatan cuisine, I suggest you look elsewhere.
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