Cinco de Mayo
This is the day that many people wish to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with many, many margaritas, because nothing says "I support Mexican holidays" like drinking margaritas. For those who don't know what Cinco de Mayo is really about here is a documentary by the History Channel to explain it all. This day celebrates Mexico breaking away from French control and gaining their independence. If you wish to host your own party to celebrate Mexican independence then please check out these great cookbooks.
The best Mexican recipes: kitchen tested recipes put the real flavors of Mexico within reach
Let America’s Test Kitchen be your guide to making deeply flavoured Mexican dishes at home. Our first Mexican cookbook features foolproof appetizers, soups and stews, authentic egg dishes, tacos and tamales, burritos and enchiladas, and all manner of meat and seafood dishes. The Best Mexican Recipes includes a primer on Mexican home cooking with information on key ingredients (readily available at your supermarket) and innovative techniques that shave time off traditional preparation methods. Not only will you be able to cook amazingly flavorful Mexican food, but you’ll cook with confidence.
Muy Bueno: three generations of authentic Mexican flavor: recipes, stories
Spanning three generations, Muy Bueno offers over 100 recipes: traditional old-world northern Mexican recipes from Jesusita's kitchen; comforting south of the border home-style dishes from Evangelina; and innovative Latin fusion recipes from Yvette and Veronica. Also includes a chile glossary with photos, step-by-step instructions for roasting chiles, making tamales, and red chile sauce.
Tacos, Tortas and Tamales: flavors from the griddles, pots, and streetside kitchens of Mexico
Experience classic and modern Mexican street foods with chef Roberto Santibañez. Mexico's simplest, flavour-packed foods have taken the culinary world by storm. From upscale eateries to the burgeoning roving food truck scenes in Los Angeles, New York, and elsewhere, authentic Mexican'tacos–and tortas and tamales as well–are fast becoming some of America's favourite foods on the fly. And why wouldn't they? Versatile, handheld, and uncomplicated tacos might be the perfect fast and delicious meal. Add the simple Mexican sandwiches called tortas and handmade tamales and you can fully experience the real everyday food of Mexico–easy to make and incredibly tasty.
Now perhaps you are someone who would like to go deeper than merely margaritas and guacamole and really delve into Mexican culture, why not read some Mexican authors who have won critical acclaim.
Jorge Volpi is a Mexican author and essayist who has been writing since the early 1990s. This book in particular has been translated into 19 languages. In his international bestseller In Search of Klingsor, Jorge Volpi takes us from the Institute of Advanced Study to the heart of Hitler's Germany, where the line between truth and lies is all but dissolved. Mysterious, seductive, and immediately engrossing, this startlingly accomplished thriller explores the nexus between science and human nature and how they shaped the world in the aftermath of World War II. In 1940, Francis Bacon, a brilliant young American physicist, is invited to join the prestigious institute at Princeton, the world's foremost physics research facility. But a series of personal indiscretions forces him to accept a different, more sinister, assignment: uncover "Klingsor," Hitler's top adviser on the scientific work in the Third Reich, including the race to create the first atomic bomb.
Signs Preceding the End of the World
Yuri Herrera is a political scientist who has studied both in Mexico and the United States. This book is his first, but most likely not his last to be published in English. Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there’s no going back.
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This comical story follows an auctioneer with teeth that he hopes to sell claiming they belong to many illustrious people from history. More teeth are purchased with even more history and those are stolen and the story continues on with its absurdity. This is Valeria Luiselli's second novel and she also written a number of essays, definitely a jewel in Mexican literature.
Octavio Paz won a Nobel Prize for his contributions to literature to the world and this book is merely one of his collections of poems. Here at last is the first retrospective collection of Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career, from the first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem; the whole is assiduously edited and translated by acclaimed essayist Eliot Weinberger — who has been translating Paz for over forty years — with additional translations by several poet-luminaries.
2 thoughts on “Cinco de Mayo”
Cinco de Mayo is *NOT* when Mexico celebrates its independence, that’s on Sept 16. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo
That is correct, the date signifies a major battle that Mexican forces won over the French. That win for the Mexican forces is said to have a major symbolic victory and helped garner support before Mexico was able to gain their independence. I apologize for the error.