Growing up in Southern Arizona helped form Chef Ryan Clark's brand of cuisine. You take a young, three-time Tucson Iron Chef winner and surround him with the best the Southwest has to offer and voila! you get Modern Southwest Cooking. Innovative recipes include Prickly Pear Mojito, Yam and Ginger-Jalapeno Pave, California Halibut and Sauteed Succotash, Hanger Steak Chimichurri, and Habanero Creme Brulee.
Featuring recipes dazzling both in taste and preparation, this is a brilliant nouvelle cuisine interpretation of the foods of the American Southwest. 50 full-color photographs.
Southwest Book of the Year Award Winner Pubwest Book Design Award Winner Drawing on thousands of years of foodways, Tucson cuisine blends the influences of Indigenous, Mexican, mission-era Mediterranean, and ranch-style cowboy food traditions. This book offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became American’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy. Both family supper tables and the city’s trendiest restaurants feature native desert plants and innovative dishes incorporating ancient agricultural staples. Award-winning writer Carolyn Niethammer deliciously shows how the Sonoran Desert’s first farmers grew tasty crops that continue to influence Tucson menus and how the arrival of Roman Catholic missionaries, Spanish soldiers, and Chinese farmers influenced what Tucsonans ate. White Sonora wheat, tepary beans, and criollo cattle steaks make Tucson’s cuisine unique. In A Desert Feast, you’ll see pictures of kids learning to grow food at school, and you’ll meet the farmers, small-scale food entrepreneurs, and chefs who are dedicated to growing and using heritage foods. It’s fair to say, “Tucson tastes like nowhere else.”
"Mouthwatering . . . this book's a treat for eye and palate." --Metropolitan Home magazine "Nobody makes a tamale quite like Sedler." --Ruth Reichl Popular features of southwestern and Mexican cooking, tamales--little packages of corn masa dough--are quickly becoming one of America's favorite wrapped foods thanks to the genius of these three chefs. Tamales are inexpensive, easy to prepare, and highly versatile. Best of all, they can be made with all types of fillings and in limitless styles. Try these tempting variations: * Roasted Potato, Garlic, and Sun-Dried Tomato Tamales * Asparagus and Hollandaise Tamales * Caribbean Jerk Shrimp Tamales * Lobster Newburg Tamales * Smoked Salmon Tamales with Horseradish Crema * Arroz con Pollo Tamales * Chicken Tamales with Mole Poblano * Coriander-Cured Beef Tamales with Barbecue-Onion Marmalade * Lamb Tamales with Mint, Black Beans, and Blackened Tomato and Mint Salsa * Mom's Apple Pie tamales * Chocolate Bread Pudding Tamales * And more than 100 other recipes * After tasting these tantalizing recipes, you'll agree it's true that good things do come in small packages.
Abstract: A collection of 39 recipes contributed by 5 Indian tribes of the American Southwest features staple foods traditionally grown in Indian village gardens. These native foods include corn, squash, pinto beans, red and green chilis, pumpkin, and wild desert plants, e.g., prickly pear, mesquite, tepary, squawberry, and cholla. Many recipes of the Apache, Papago, Pima, Pueblo, and Navajo originated before contact was made with Spanish culture; others include foods introduced with colonization. Most ingredients found in these recipes, however, are available in local supermarkets and grocery stores. (nm).
The author of "All on the Grill" shares his brilliant barbecue wizardry with such dishes as Pork Loin with Garlic and Sage Rub, Chicken Breasts with a Tequila-Brown Sugar Mop, and Shrimp Fajitas. Includes 225 Southwestern recipes. 70 two-color illustrations.
30 classic Southwest recipes to treasure The Little Local Southwest Cookbook brings the essential flavors of the American Southwest to your table. Spice up your snack time with Sangria Blanca and Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeño Poppers, and liven up your lunches with Red Chile Chicken Enchiladas or Carne Seca Chimichangas. No matter where you are, grab some chile powder and transport yourself to the desert warmth to enjoy the region’s indigenously influenced cuisine. Written by a regional food expert and beautifully illustrated, this little cookbook is the perfect gift for those who dream of the sunny Southwest.
