Cuisine of the water gods : the authentic seafood and vegetable cookery of Mexico
/ Patricia Quintana, with Jack Bishop
- New York : Simon & Schuster , 1994
- 322 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Divided into 16 chapters, each devoted to one coastal state (plus Mexico City), Quintana offers an overview of the featured state, followed by selected local recipes and including details on the customs, traditions, and culinary specialties of each region. Quintana's knowledge of ingredients, recipes, and culinary techniques of the pre-Hispanic indigenous peoples, as well as of the Spanish and others, is vast. Twenty pages of ingredients and culinary techniques are included.