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Truly Texas Mexican: A Native Culinary Heritage in Recipes (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
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About Truly Texas Mexican: A Native Culinary Heritage In
Product Description Over thousands of years, Native Americans in what is now Texas passed down their ways of roasting, boiling, steaming, salting, drying, grinding, and blending. From one generation to another, these ancestors of Texas’s Mexican American community lent their culinary skills to combining native and foreign ingredients into the flavor profile of indigenous Texas Mexican cooking today. Building on what he learned from his own family, Adán Medrano captures this distinctive flavor profile in 100 kitchen-tested recipes, each with step-by-step instructions. Equally as careful with history, he details how hundreds of indigenous tribes in Texas gathered and hunted food, planted gardens, and cooked. Offering new culinary perspective on well-known dishes such as enchiladas and tamales, Medrano explains the complexities of aromatic chiles and how to develop flavor through technique as much as ingredients. Sharing freely the secrets of lesser-known culinary delights, such as turcos, a sweet pork pastry served as dessert, and posole, giant white corn treated with calcium hydroxide, he illuminates the mouth-watering interconnectedness of culture and cuisine. The recipes and personal anecdotes shared in Truly Texas Mexican illuminate the role that cuisine plays in identity and community. Review "Medrano's tome is well-researched and well-illustrated with maps and appetite-stirring photographs of dishes like grilled clams in tequila broth; watermelon canapés with avocado, serrano, and grapes; and a red jalapeño champagne cocktail... It is truly a delight." -- Cowboys And Indians Magazine "treasury of 100 kitchen-tested recipes showcasing the heritage of Texas Mexican cuisine. Truly Texas Mexican features flavors to remember. A superb addition to cookbook shelves!" -- Midwest Book Review Truthfully, Adán Medrano has no real issues with processed cheese or greasy refried beans. But in his recent cookbook, Truly Texas Mexican, the San Antonio native outlines a different kind of Texas cooking, with recipes that rely upon fewer--and fresher--ingredients. "Texas Mexican" food begins centuries before the first Europeans set foot in the United States, with the simmering beans and roast wild chiles of the tribes that first inhabited the Lone Star State, and continues into the homes of families across the Southwest today--including his own. -Garden & Gun Magazine From the Author "Tex-Mex" is not the subject of this book nor are the 100 recipes. "Tex-Mex" is a restaurant format that began in San Antonio in 1900 and is a variation of Texas Mexican cuisine which has much older historical roots in the state. I detail the differences in T ruly Texas Mexican, which is a combination of history and cookbook. Garden & Gun Magazine published a quote about the book that is worth repeating: "making a distinction is in no way disparaging one or the other." About the Author Chef and food writer Adán Medrano is a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and holds an M.A. degree from the University of Texas, Austin. Now living in Houston, he grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and in northern Mexico, where he developed his expertise in the flavor profile and techniques of indigenous Texas Mexican food. Medrano's professional experience includes fine dining venues such as "Restaurant Ten Bogaerde" in Koksijde, Belgium, cooking demonstrations in Amsterdam and showcasing his recipes at "Nao," the CIA restaurant in San Antonio.
