(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Mexican) Claudio Poblete & Ignacio Urquiza. Oaxaca Y sus Cocineras: Tesoro Gastronómico de México

Illus. throughout with gorgeous color photographs by Nacho Urquiza. Folio, pictorial cloth, jacket. First Edition. Oaxaca: Culinaria Mexicana, 2018.

In Spanish. Through its 339 pages the book Oaxaca and its Traditional Female Cooks, Gastronomic Treasure of Mexico produced by the Culinaria Mexicana Group, whose editorial director is the renowned journalist for the Gourmand World Cookbook Award, Claudio Poblete Ritschel and under the photography of Ignacio Urquiza, one of the most acclaimed masters of the lens and specialist in culinary issues in Mexico, exalts the tangible memory and the work of 77 teachers and 3 master chefs resulting in capturing 80 ancestral recipes from Oaxaca.

An example of this culinary heritage is the 31-year experience of traditional cook Catalina Chávez, originally from the municipality of Tlacolula de Matamoros located in the Valles Centrales region, who at 10 years of age became a cook by deveining with her bare hands sacks of dried chihuacle chile, pasilla chile and guajillo chile to make Oaxacan mole for more than a thousand people who were participating in the patron saint festival of her community.

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