The Texas Mexican Plant-based Cookbook (Indigenous Foodways) - Hardcover

Medrano, Adn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1682832732 ISBN 13: 9781682832738

Verlag: Texas A & M University Press, 2025

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In 15,000-year-old archaeologicalsites throughout Texas and Northeastern Mexico, records left by Coahuiltecan,Karankawa, Apache, and other Indigenous communities tell stories about theirfood practices, the roots of Texas Mexican cuisine. Author and chef AdánMedrano, a Coahuiltecan descendant, has made it his life’s work to documentthese food practices and the stories they narrate. In The Texas MexicanPlant-Based Cookbook, he honors the plant-based cooking history, traditions,and knowledge that make up the comida casera (home cooking) of today’s TexasMexican community.

Each of the 90 kitchen-testedrecipes includes detailed cooking instructions intended for contemporary homecooks. Headnotes for each recipe describe how the dish entered the region’sculinary traditions and became integral to the culinary act of meaning-makingin the community. The book provides explanations of the origins of iconicingredients like squash, cactus, mesquite, and sunflowers, as well as morerecent, post-Conquest ingredients like watermelon, rice, and cauliflower. Texasancestors ate pecans and black walnuts, along with acorns, grapes, berries,seeds, and tubers. Mesquite and cactus were central to celebrations.

Home cooks of alllevels can discover and reclaim ancient ingredients and simple techniques inthis volume and come away with a deeper knowledge of the agricultural systemsthat belie our current foodways.

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Chef, food writer, and filmmaker Adán Medrano holds a Certificate in Culinary Arts from the Culinary Institute of America. 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. He is the author of Truly Texas Mexican: A Native Culinary Heritage in Recipes (TTU Press, 2014) and Don't Count the Tortillas: The Art of Texas Mexican Cooking (TTU Press, 2019). In his career as a foundation grant maker, he spent twenty-three years working throughout Latin America, Europe, and Asia and during his travels came to recognize the cultural importance of food.

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• Verlag: Texas A & M University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1682832732
• ISBN 13: 9781682832738
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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