Product Description: Jim Peyton’s latest cookbook brings culinary sophistication to American kitchens with a collection of outstanding recipes and the lore surrounding the most popular dishes ordered in Tex-Mex restaurants. Tex-Mex, barbecue and chile are important aspects of Texas regional cooking that developed organically over many years of trial and error by thousands of remarkable cooks, as Mexicans working on ranches in South Texas built on the 16th century fusion of Spanish and Indian cooking in Mexico...read more

Product Description: The cooking of northern Mexico got its spark from the ranching culture, in which food was prepared with indigenous ingredients and cooked over a wood fire. El Norte presents delicious and easy to prepare recipes and dishes from the northern region of Mexico. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Gathers recipes for tortillas, bread, sauces, appetizers, rice, beans, soups, salads, tacos, enchiladas, tostadas, burritos, chimichangas, stews, seafood, game, eggs, vegetables, and desserts