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He taught me how to cook
I love this guy, he taught me everything I need to know about cooking.My husband is hispanic and he says my mexican food is better than some of his family members, especially my salsas.Rick is great and I love his TV show on pbs-- his book has great authenic recipes that everyone will love.

Healthy, fast and varied
James Beard Award-winner Bayless approaches everyday cooking with two goals - easy preparation and nutritional balance, with an emphasis on one-dish meals. He omits complex traditional moles except for a simpler Oaxacan yellow made with masa harina and tomatoes and he frontloads the book with salads and sides, like Green Bean Salad with Red Onion and a salsa dressing or a Sweet Potato Salad with Caramelized Onions and a red chile vinaigrette.
Bringing Mexican flavors alive for a wide audience
Rick Bayless created and cooked at a pair of Chicago's long-running Mexican restaurants, and was purveyor of the multi-million dollar Frontera Foods: here his detailed knowledge and experience of the cuisine lends to Mexican Everyday, which shows how to present flavorful cuisine. Recipes are featured on the new and fourth season of the PBS series 'Mexico One Plate at a Time' and bring to life the flavors to be found in a daily Mexican kitchen. From a spicy, smoky Chorizo Dressing to Rustic Roasted Tomato Salsa and Quick Cowboy Beans, Bayless provides gorgeous color photos to supplement his step- by-step easy instructions, bringing Mexican flavors alive for a wide audience.
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Very, very Dissappointing
I like Susana Palazuelos, I enjoyed her meal at Izote in Mexico City...and have used her recipes, but I have no idea what she was doing for this book.
a great book
this was a terrific book with lots of beautiful pictures and easy to follow recipes. there was something for everyone from novices to chefs. its great!!

Fantastic
"Mexico, The Beautiful Cookbook" not only is a wonderful cookbook filled with authentic recipes, but also a gorgeous coffee table book showing the beautiful country of Mexico.
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Finest Authentic Mexican Cooking Book written
I have never written a review of a cookbook, but I just received a copy of this excellent book. I get many cookbooks as gifts- primarily from my kids. This is the best cookbook I have ever received.I have been fortunate to have eaten at Dona Tomas in Oakland which is one of the many reasons I was interested in this book. Another aspect is the excellent review the book received in the LA TImes.
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Excellent
I was surprised at some of the reviews. This is not a quick fix cook book. Rick's aim was to deliver the food, culture, and history of Mexico and he did it in excellent form.
Excellent book !!!
I am of Mexican descent and I don't even know most of the recipes, I don't even cook this good with delicious being extra.Rick is so knowledgeable, you would think he was mexican.I have tried so many of his recipes, and they are all mouth watering.Mexico should get real and give him citizenship because he truly represents the best of mexican cooking.
Dancing With Tortilla Soup
We've had some great meals since we bought this book. Bayless writes about Mexican food the way John Muir writes about nature, and I am happy to report the meals my wife has made have lived up to the description. We've lived and traveled extensively in Mexico and can report that this is authentic stuff, and quite a bit better than what you'll find in an American Mexican restaraunt. We went to one such restaraunt near Plaistow, New Hampshire where they charged extra for a side of salsa. That was bleak. We needed a book like this. Most of these meals do take time to make. He doesn't do things the easy way. While in Mexico we rent a cheap apartment without an oven, most of the local people we know don't have ovens so it is surprising many of these recipes are for the oven. But that's been our only problem with the book. He has strong opinions and we may not always agree but thats OK. Even has a page in the back listing websites to get hard to find Mexican ingredients. We've been having great meals. ... Read more

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Reviews (38)

Complete success
Every recipe I have tried has been a hit with family and friends. People keep asking for "my" recipes.
Great recipes, but watch out for publishers errors
The recipes are great, but you need to be careful because of what may be publishers errors. I made the "Red Chile Braised Chicken with potatoes & greens" (p314). While preparing it, I noticed there was nothing in the "Essential Sweet-and-Spicy Ancho Seasoning Paste" to make it sweet. I checked another recipe (one of our FAVORITES), the "Chile Glazed Country Ribs" (p380) and saw it contained sugar & honey. I added sugar & honey, adjusting for volume and made a great sweet & spicy seasoning. Definitely try this book for great tasting meals.

The Master of Mexican Cuisine Does Staples and more!
`Rick Bayless's Mexican Kitchen' is restaurateur / PBS show host Rick Bayless' second major book on Mexican cuisine in cooperation with his wife, Deann Groen Bayless, and the first with collaborator, JeanMarie Brownson.
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Outstanding collection
This was my first Mexican cookbook.My husband and I love Mexican food, and I decided to see whether I could learn how to make some of the tasty dishes myself as opposed to buying pre-packaged mixes and salsas in a jar.1000 Mexican Recipes was a fortunate choice!I learned the basics in the first chapters, and this gave me the confidence to try the main dishes.Wow!I was amazed at the difference it made to use some fresh ingredients and cook them properly for best results.
GreatBargain
For the price I would recommend this book for the many, many recipes it contains alone. Good reference book for Mexican cooking at home.

The Only Mexican Book You'll Ever Need
This book has every Mexican recipe Mexico has to offer. Try to cook a little at a time so to familiarize yourself with Mexican recipes. No Mexican will turn down your food!! This is the Bible of cooking Authentic Mexican food. And it's not that hard either. ... Read more

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Reviews (5)

authentic and yummy
wonderful recipes -- the guacamole and the enchiladas suizas always earn me rave reviews and they taste like the stuff i had in mexico!

Yum!
Lots of great recipes. I've tried several and they are absolutely delicious. I was suprised how small the book was though.

Wonderful Mexican Cookbook!!!!!!!..........
...........I purchased this cookbook a few weeks back and I've been cooking from it like crazy. I've already made a quarter or so of its forty six recipes. All of them so far have been marvelous and authentic! Each has filled my kitchen with the incredible scents of Mexican cooking like never before!Read more

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Simply Exquisite
Once again Marilyn Tausend does not disappoint!I own the Spanish edition of this book and have given the English edition to friends visiting Mexico and wanted a "real authentic Mexican cuisine" cookbook.She does a great job on explaining the traditions and festivities that go hand-in-hand with a lot of foods in Mexico.The Christmas punch is a family favorite served annually at our Posadas and Christmas meals.(Recipe tip:remove the seeds from the Guavaba fruit before adding to the punch.)
Marilyn Tausend Rocks!
This book is a wonderful followup to her collaborative work "Mexico The Beautiful". I was afraid that many of the wonderfully authentic recipes from her other books might be duplicated here, but that's not the case. As usual, she's managed to come up with very authentic recipes (I have lived in Mexico for many years now and have studied the cuisines) that I had been hoping to find, such as Quail in Rose Petal Sauce of "Like Water For Chocolate" fame, Cream of Chile Poblano, and Torta Azteca, among others. The instructions are easy to understand, the photography is brilliant, the ingredients are relatively easy to find and Ms. Tausend again did her research right because these recipes taste like the real thing! This is not another taco/enchilada/burrito cookbook, there are many truly fascinating and hard-to-find dishes in this book. I'm so glad I bought it! If you're looking for another great Mexican cooking aid, this is the one to get after Mexico the Beautiful!

Excellent mexican cooking book!!!!
I was looking for a good authentic mexican book (my husband is mexican) and this one captured my attention. My husband reviewed it and he aggreed that the recipes are authentic from a lot of regions in Mexico.Each recipes has its own picture and very well presented.Read more

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An Excellent Authentic Mexican Cookbook
I live in Southern California surrounded by countless Mexican Restaurants of all levels of quality. Sadly most are sub par greasy cheese and dry rice joints. The recipes I have prepared in this book make the countless combo-number-whatever's pale in comparison. The author explains the reasons for this in the books beginning introduction.
meican flavors
very helpful in the kitchen, and explains the flavors of mexico very well

No yellow cheese anywhere...
If your idea of Mexican food is tortillas covered in red glop and yellow cheese then you are in for a surprise.This is one of the most impressived and authentic cookbooks on Mexican food I have ever seen. You get the feel for Bayless's love of Mexican food and flavors as well as the culture. This is the type of food my Mom and my grandmothers make... ... Read more

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Recipes Right on Target
I've never used a book that produced meals that get more compliments from my Dallasite friends or Houston in-laws (and that's no easy feat as they are Tex-Mex experts). Matt's recipes are much simpler than those I've tried from other cookbooks while producing the same or superior results without having to soak chilies, grind them in a blender, etc. I may have to tweak flavorings some (hence 4 stars instead of 5) but the techniques and overall results can't be beat. As to how many recipes a person will use from any given cookbook ... well, in Dallas we eat a lot of this kind of food and I consider the money well spent.

Some good recipes; but book is somewhat pricey.
Even though Tex-Mex food is on every nutrionist's "Index of Forbidden Cuisines," I love the stuff. I ordered this book prepared to like it; and,overall, I'm glad I've got it. For one thing, nearly every item listed in the recipes can be found in my local grocery store located in a town of 8,000 souls in the Northeast. Read more

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Best that's out there on the subject...I love this book!
I love this book. The author brings enormous experience from her own highly beloved tamalaria in S. Calif. and makes it possible to create excellent tamales on your own. Not as easy a subject as it might seem. I found her presentation thoughtful, with clear, thorough explanations and instructions that are well-presented. Her detailed description of the different types of masa and masa prep., of tamale wrappers and wrapping techniques, of ratio of filling to masa, of the tradition versus popular taste in saucing tamales, of all matters related to general preparation, cooking, storing etc. are all excellent, especially considering that it is a rather small book. Unlike another tamale book out now by a famous chef, these recipes are down to earth and wonderful, and span a wide range of tamales...including adaptations for vegetarians, special occasion tamales and much more. Great sauce recipes. Different versions of many recipes (such as mole sauces, chicken tamales, and much more). The author has a nice personable style, sharing customs andher own family lore along with her valuable insights from running a tamaleria in a trendy So. Cal beach town...and that is a really daunting challenge: to appeal to everything from a large solid Mexicano population to surfers to L.A.'s celeb-types etc. etc.
Greatly disappointed
I am an experienced cook and baker,and followed the recipe for Masa Harina Masa.I bought the correct dry corn flour from an hispanic market, and made some excellent chicken stock.The ingredients list called for 12 cups of the corn flour and 7 cups of stock, mixed in a stand mixer with the paddle attachment.and when I placed these ingredients in the mixer and turned it on, it was too much for the mixer to hold.I emptied out the contents of the bowl into another bowl, mixed the contents with my hands to distribute the stock and corn flour evenly, and returned half of the ingredients to the mixer bowl and began to mix.The mixture never reached the "firm pudding" stage as described in the recipe.I had to add more than an additional 4 cups of stock to get to this stage.I don't think the author carefully measured the ingredients when she recorded the recipes.Since this is a recipe that many people will make (the masa is the main part of a tamale) she should have been more careful.However, when I made the Red Pork Chile Tamales the sauce was delicous and my family liked the flavor and texture of the tamales.

Good, but the definitive guide is yet to be written
This is a nice little book with lots of traditional recipes and the author is enthusiastic but her fat of choice is margarine, a fact I have trouble digesting, if you know what I mean. ... Read more

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World Class Mexican Cuisine
This is a magical book. Mexican food is vast, bold, spicy, festive and over all, plain delicious. Richard Sandoval brings a new element to this mix, Complexity. Mr. Sandoval polishes a Diamond in the rough.Read more

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The person who rated this with one star is a complete and total idiot, at BEST
I ordered this, because I love this type of food, and because I want to in some small way make up for the total moron who rated it with one star. She said because she does not know what the food is supposed to look like, and there are no pictures of the food in it. What planet is she from?
It could have been better
It could have been better.

A Big Hit
This book provided me with new ideas on how to spice up my old and bland receipes.I am truly enjoying the excitment this is putting into my cooking. Elizabeth has captured the flavor of Mexico with a Texas / US flair. A great addition to any bodies cooking. ... Read more

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Collectible Santa Fe Cookbook
"The heart and soul of the School is the agriculture upon which the food is based. Many of the traditional methods of growing and processing regional foods - posole, atole, chicos - are almost lost arts. The Cooking School serves as a vehicle to expose and sustain traditional lifestyles." ~Introduction
festive and colorful
This useful book combines contemporary cuisine with its emphasis on color, freshness and health (lime marinated grilled salmon, quesadillas with goat cheese and roasted peppers, jicama salad with watercress, radish and chiles) with hearty traditional foods (enchiladas suizas with tomatillo and cilantro salsa, green chile and cabbage soup with sausage, chiles rellenos, black bean soup). Wonderful introduction to the world of New Mexico's cuisine!
This is a super introduction to the habit-forming, varied cuisine of New Mexico!The recipes are tested in the Cooking School, so you can be surethat they are workable.Since I have attended three classes at the school,it is with confidence that I recommend this book.The recipe for NewMexican Green Chile and Cabbage Soup with Sausage alone is worth the price! There is a good list of sources for Southwestern ingredients in the back. My only criticism is that I find the layout of the index to be confusing. ... Read more

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What I Expected from Chevy's
Everything you would want from this very good Tex Mex chain is in this book - including their famous salsa.A good buy, if you're as big a fan as I am.

Good, but much prep.
This is a very good cookbook, but it requires building a pantry full of intersecting recipes/prepared bases vitally important to creating end result dishes in this book. To attempt to do it all from the ground up, virtually at ground zero would take you days to complete an entire/full meal setting. (Something to consider when purchasing this book.)
Mexican cooking at its best!
The fresh-Mex recipes in this cookbook are about the best I've ever found. The Guacamole recipe is fantastic and everything from fish tacos to carnitas is mouth-watering good. It requires a little more prep time to cook with all fresh ingredients instead of prepared or canned foods but is well worth it as the end results are delicious. Your kitchen will smell heavenly and your guests will go back for seconds and thirds. ... Read more

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Why buy this derivative when the real thing is available?
Having been an early fan of Jane and Michael Stern, it is disappointing to see that they've simply "copied" (not quite the right word, but it suffices) another and better book, while leaving out the better parts.Face it, the full title of this book is "The Flores Family's El Charro Cafe Cookbook"..."with recipes by Carlotta Flores", and that book is available here at amazon.com.The Stern derivative simply reorganizes the order of the recipes in Sra. Flores' book and omits most of the "notitas" and cultural material.
Tucson Native
I am a Tucson Native far from home (living in Japan) and although I have not read the book, I can certainly say that El Charro's is great Mexican food! Whenever we go home it's a sure stop. I just finished ordering the book, can't wait til it arrives!

Looks good--they know their Mexican food!!
I have eaten at El Charro in Tucson, and the food is fantastic.I spent some time looking at this book and plan to buy it.I was concerned that the book wouldn't clearly indicate how the food got to be some darn good.In other words, the recipes wouldn't have anything out of the ordinary--the secret was in the kitchen staff's know-how.Thankfully, these recipes have some obvious differences from typical Mexican cookbook recipes.For example, El Charro uses tons of garlic--they blend it with water to make a puree that finds its way into most of their recipes.I'm certain this "garlic dosing" contributes to their greatness.Another item that caught my eye is the use of condensed milk in their refried beans--I've never seen that before.Having eaten them I can say it works!Last point: make sure you try the barbacoa recipe.El Charro's barbacoa enchiladas were so delicious I nearly fell off my chair in the dining room.They use pickling spice in the recipe--another gem.The food is great....and the book is different enough to warrant adding this to the shelf next to Rick Bayless and Diana Kennedy. ... Read more

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"Gordito" is an excellent book
I recommended this book to all 'Latino' parents that want to have healthy children.Either you have an overweight child or you want to prevent obesity in a child; this book explains itall.
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Excellent! Interesting! A great gift!
I ordered this book to give away as a door prize.When it arrived, I glanced through it, but was so captivated that I sat down and read through the entire book immediately (even though I had/have no plans to ever cook any of the food) -- it was a fascinating glimpse into the life and times of Frida, Diego and others.Then I ordered three more to give as gifts to friends.

Love it!!!
I love this book. It's great . . . I love the stories, the pictures, and the recipes instructions are very clear. I recommend this book!

Beautiful and Tasty Addition to my Frida Kahlo Library
I'm a huge Frida Kahlo fan, and this is much more than a mere recipe book.While Hayden Herrera's biography gave us the flavor of Frida's life, Frida's Fiestas gives us the flavor of her kitchen, bringing those of us who wish to know more about the artist and the woman just a little bit closer to sharing and understanding her life.Frida celebrated life to it's fullest; her favorite recipes and the artistic way they are presented on the pages of this book are a celebration as well. Viva la Vida! ... Read more

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Outstanding, Authentic, and Beautifully done
Of of the few, rare, authentic looks at some exceptionally wonderful food. The book is beautiful, and enhances the feel for understanding the landscape and people that authentic south Texas ranch cooking comes from. Thank God Melissa is secure enough in tradition that she did not feel the need to throw Mangos in everything to prove she was a creative chef. I have pet goats that were adopted as orphans, and they are very sweet and loving, so I no longer eat Cabrito, but have had it enough in the past to appreciate the recipes.
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