Encarnación's kitchen : Mexican recipes from nineteenth-century California / Encarnación Pinedo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinedo, Encarnación, Author.

Contributor:

Strehl, Dan.

Series:

California studies in food and culture.

California Studies in Food and Culture ; 9

Standardized Title:

Cocinero español. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Mexican.

Cookbooks--California.

Cookbooks.

Cooking--California.

Cooking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1991 Ruth Reichl, then a Los Angeles Times food writer, observed that much of the style now identified with California cuisine, and with nouvelle cuisine du Mexique, was practiced by Encarnación Pinedo a century earlier. A landmark of American cuisine first published in 1898 as El cocinero español (The Spanish Cook), Encarnación's Kitchen is the first cookbook written by a Hispanic in the United States, as well as the first recording of Californio food-Mexican cuisine prepared by the Spanish-speaking peoples born in California. Pinedo's cookbook offers a fascinating look into the kitchens of a long-ago culture that continues to exert its influence today. Of some three hundred of Pinedo's recipes included here-a mixture of Basque, Spanish, and Mexican-many are variations on traditional dishes, such as chilaquiles, chiles rellenos, and salsa (for which the cook provides fifteen versions). Whether describing how to prepare cod or ham and eggs (a typical Anglo dish labeled "huevos hipócritas"), Pinedo was imparting invaluable lessons in culinary history and Latino culture along with her piquant directions. In addition to his lively, clear translation, Dan Strehl offers a remarkable view of Pinedo's family history and of the material and literary culture of early California cooking. Prize-winning journalist Victor Valle puts Pinedo's work into the context of Hispanic women's testimonios of the nineteenth century, explaining how the book is a deliberate act of cultural transmission from a traditionally voiceless group.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A CURSE OF TEA AND POTATOES

IN ENCARNACIÓN'S KITCHEN

A NOTE ON THE TEXT

EL COCINERO ESPAÑOL RECETAS . RECIPES

INGREDIENTS AND PROCEDURES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612358265

9781282358263

128235826X

9780520939332

0520939336

9781597345958

1597345954

OCLC:

475931817