I'm very knowledgeable and experienced in Mexican cuisine. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. When Sterling left Manhattan to settle in a beautiful colonial house in Merida on the Yucatan Peninsula, he fell in love with the culture, the people and the food. Skip to main content. The Yucatán Peninsula, located in Southeastern Mexico, is the focus of David Sterling’s regional cookbook: Yucatán: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition .The Mexican part of the Yucatán Peninsula is divided into 3 of the 31 states: Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Campeche.
It's a brilliant book, beautiful, extremely informative about a place and a cuisine unknown to many of us.
The section La Concina Economica, which highlights the food made by the mamas, contains recipes that are a bit easier and are what my husband's family ate 90% of the time. An internationally recognized authority on Yucatecan cuisine, chef David Sterling takes you on a gastronomic tour of the peninsula in this unique cookbook, Yucatán: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition. I especially love the Market section, with names of fruits and veg and herbs in Spanish/English/Latin/Mayan. Yucatán: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition (William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Cultur).
Incredibly helpful. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Please try again. Start by marking “Yucatan: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition” as Want to Read: Error rating book. It's a culinary tour de force. Sterling's love and respect for the food, people, and culture of the Yucatan peninsula is apparent in his cookbook, and though the layout is a bit non-traditional (think coffee table book/cookbook), it is undoubtedly a great resource for those seeking to sample the delicious flavor palate of the region. At 500-plus pages and coffee-table size, the book is sure to be a long-term, definitive reference guide.
If you follow the world of food, chances are you’ve heard of David Chang. With over 275 authentic, easy-to-follow recipes, lively stories of their origins, and luscious illustrations, here is the definitive work on the foods of Yucatán, one of the world’s great regional cuisines. I hope to one day own this book along with Kennedy's 'Oaxaca al Gusto' so that I can gain more working familiarity with the delicious and unique flavors of southern Mexico. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The Horchata recipe is also outstanding. --Barbara Jacobs. Unable to add item to List. Mérida, Campeche, and Valladolid (Yucatan’s three largest cities) have their own sections, and special pueblos known for a signature food are described as well.
The more than 275 recipes are gathered in groupings based on the heartland, the coast, the cities, and the villages, populated, too, with excellent photographs of many Yucatan natives (meet 73-year-old Hernán Perrera Novelo, who still farms his plot).
David Sterling has written THE definitive book encompassing everything you could ever possibly want to know about the cuisine of the Yucatan.
Wow - what an extensive book - I have travelled here for 40 years, and this gentleman did the culinary tour de force. Beautiful book, lots of info about cooking and the culture of the Yucatan. Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2020.