Encarnación's kitchen : Mexican recipes from nineteenth-century California : selections from Encarnación Pinedo's El cocinero español /
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 espan...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2003.
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| Series: | California studies in food and culture ;
9. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt7zw4fs |
| 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 o. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 214 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520939332 0520939336 1417522844 9781417522842 0520236513 9780520236516 |