Mexican Cuisine

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Alejandro Valdés

Novisimo Arte

Mexico: C. Alejandro Valdés, 1831

Possibly the first cookbook printed in Mexico.  The majority of the recipes included are Mexican, with some French and Italian dishes included.

Click the cover to read the book

TX725.M6.N68 1831

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Alejandro Pardo 

Los 30 Menus del Mes: Manual de la Cocina Casera 

México: Antigua Imprenta de Murguia1918

Alejandro Pardo was born in Spain, and studied at Cordon Bleu in Paris. He emigrated to Mexico City in 1912 and founded one of the first cooking schools in the city. 

TX716.M4 P37 1918 

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Faustina Lavelle de Hernandez

La Exquisita Cocina de Campeche  

México: Imprenta "Londres"1939

TX716.M4 L38 1939 

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Maria A. de Carbia 

Mexico en la Cocina de Marichu 

Mexico, D.F.: Libros y Revistas, S.A., c. 1950

Translated as Mexico Through my Kitchen Window, this cookbook was written by Maria A. de Carbia, and edited by Helen Corbitt.  

TX716.M4 C37 1950z 

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Mariano Dueñas 

Salsas Mexicanas 

Mexico, D.F.: Ediciones Josefina Velazquez de Leon1966

Recipes from this book were popularized by Rick Bayless in his bestselling cookbook Authentic Mexican (1987). 

TX819.S29 D84 1966 

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Patricia Quintana (1946-2018) 

The Best of Quintana 

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang1995

Patricia Quintana was a chef, writer, and restaurant owner recognized as an expert on the history of Mexican cuisine.  

TX716.M4 Q54 1995 

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Diana Kennedy (1923-2022)

The Cuisines of Mexico 

New York: Harper & Rowc1972

Diana Kennedy was a British food writer who was recognized as an English-language authority on Mexican cuisine. She moved to the country in 1957 with her husband, the New York Times correspondent for Mexico, and after falling in love with the local cuisine, set out to explore the unique food cultures throughout the country's thirty-two states.  As a Brit who promoted Mexican food in the English-speaking world, she is often compared to Julia Child, an American who did the same for French food. 

TX716.M4 K46 1972 

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Josefina Velázquez de León (1899-1968)

Manual Práctico de Cocina y Repostería 

México, D.F.: Academia de Cocina y Repostería Velázquez de León1943

Josefina Velázquez de León was a cook, teacher, food authority, and head of a media-empire in the mid-twentieth century. Born in Aguascalientes to a prominent family, sh started publishing recipes in her thirties, and having gained prominence in media, opened her own cooking school and began publishing cookbooks. She founded her own publishing house in the 1940s, which she used to distribute her cookbooks and periodicals directly to readers. In the same decade, she launched a radio program, which was followed by the first television cooking program aired in Mexico, in the 1950s. 

TX716.M4 V45 1943 

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Josefina Velázquez de León (1899-1968)

Tele-Cocina 

México, D.F.: Ediciones J. Velázquez de León, c. 1950

TX716.M4 V477 1950z 

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Ramona Valdes 

Cocina Práctica 

México: Ediciones Botas1937

Ramona Valdes was a cooking instructor and cookbook author in Mexico in the 1930s 

TX716.M4 V33 1937 

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Jules Gouffé 

Apéndice al Libro de Cocina 

Mexico: Editores Ed. Rodriguez y Co. 1893

A Spanish translation of a French cookbook by famous cook and pastry chef Jules Gouffé, published in Mexico. 

TX716.M6 G68 1893 

Mexican Cuisine