{"product_id":"yucatan-recipes-from-a-culinary-expedition-david-sterling","title":"Yucatan: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition (David Sterling)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner, James Beard Foundation Best Cookbook of the Year Award, 2015\u003cbr\u003eJames Beard Foundation Best International Cookbook Award, 2015\u003cbr\u003eThe Art of Eating Prize for Best Food Book of the Year, 2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Yucatán Peninsula is home to one of the world's great regional cuisines. With a foundation of native Maya dishes made from fresh local ingredients, it shares much of the same pantry of ingredients and many culinary practices with the rest of Mexico. Yet, due to its isolated peninsular location, it was also in a unique position to absorb the foods and flavors of such far-flung regions as Spain and Portugal, France, Holland, Lebanon and the Levant, Cuba and the Caribbean, and Africa. In recent years, gourmet magazines and celebrity chefs have popularized certain Yucatecan dishes and ingredients, such as Sopa de lima and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eachiote\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and global gastronomes have made the pilgrimage to Yucatán to tantalize their taste buds with smoky pit barbecues, citrus-based pickles, and fiery chiles. But until now, the full depth and richness of this cuisine has remained little understood beyond Yucatán's borders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn internationally recognized authority on Yucatecan cuisine, chef David Sterling takes you on a gastronomic tour of the peninsula in this unique cookbook, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eYucatán: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Presenting the food in the places where it’s savored, Sterling begins in jungle towns where Mayas concoct age-old recipes with a few simple ingredients they grow themselves. He travels over a thousand miles along the broad Yucatán coast to sample a bounty of seafood; shares “the people’s food”at bakeries, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003echicharronerías\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, street vendors, home restaurants, and cantinas; and highlights the cooking of the peninsula’s three largest cities—Campeche, Mérida, and Valladolid—as well as a variety of pueblos noted for signature dishes. Throughout the journey, Sterling serves up over 275 authentic, thoroughly tested recipes that will appeal to both novice and professional cooks. He also discusses pantry staples and basic cooking techniques and offers substitutions for local ingredients that may be hard to find elsewhere. Profusely illustrated and spiced with lively stories of the region’s people and places, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eYucatán: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the long-awaited definitive work on this distinctive cuisine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48125367222530,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/0463\/6790\/files\/A1k0j6f3VPL._SY522.jpg?v=1784071496","url":"https:\/\/omnivorebooks.myshopify.com\/products\/yucatan-recipes-from-a-culinary-expedition-david-sterling","provider":"Omnivore Books on Food","version":"1.0","type":"link"}