(Mexican) Faustina LaValle de Hernandez. La Exquisita Cocina de Campeche: 400 Recetas Experimentadas

Illus. with chapter headings. 245 pp. Period 3/4 brown cloth & marbled boards. First Edition. Mexico: 1939.

Nice early regional cookery with lots of seafood, turkey, turtle, and regional recipes like cochinita pibil, pipian de Guadalajara, tamales de nixtamalina, tacos de barbacoa con guacamole, mole de cacahuates, and long sections on economical cuisine and dulces. Campeche, a Mexican state on the Yucatán Peninsula, spans limestone hills, rainforests and Gulf of Mexico beaches.

Several manuscript & typed regional recipes laid-in, as well as some recipes from magazine clippings. Rubbing to boards, else very good. Rare.

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