Mexican Cuisine
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.
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TX725.M6.N68 1831
Alejandro Pardo
Los 30 Menus del Mes: Manual de la Cocina Casera
México: Antigua Imprenta de Murguia, 1918
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
Faustina Lavelle de Hernandez
La Exquisita Cocina de Campeche
México: Imprenta "Londres", 1939
TX716.M4 L38 1939
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
Mariano Dueñas
Salsas Mexicanas
Mexico, D.F.: Ediciones Josefina Velazquez de Leon, 1966
Recipes from this book were popularized by Rick Bayless in his bestselling cookbook Authentic Mexican (1987).
TX819.S29 D84 1966
Patricia Quintana (1946-2018)
The Best of Quintana
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1995
Patricia Quintana was a chef, writer, and restaurant owner recognized as an expert on the history of Mexican cuisine.
TX716.M4 Q54 1995
Diana Kennedy (1923-2022)
The Cuisines of Mexico
New York: Harper & Row; c1972
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
Josefina Velázquez de León (1899-1968)
Manual Práctico de Cocina y Repostería
México, D.F.: Academia de Cocina y Repostería Velázquez de León, 1943
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
Josefina Velázquez de León (1899-1968)
Tele-Cocina
México, D.F.: Ediciones J. Velázquez de León, c. 1950
TX716.M4 V477 1950z
Ramona Valdes
Cocina Práctica
México: Ediciones Botas, 1937
Ramona Valdes was a cooking instructor and cookbook author in Mexico in the 1930s
TX716.M4 V33 1937
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