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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Re: Mexican cookbook recommendations anyone?
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 11:50:15 EDT
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> Another excellent source of Mexican recipes is from either Sunset or

I agree.

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> Most of the food served in Mexican restuarants in the US is known as
> Sonora style or northern Mexican style and is found throughout the
> states of Baja, Sonora, Chihuahua and others.  Many Mexican cookbooks

I grew up in Texas. The Mexican food found there is distinctly
different from Sonoran Mexican, which is what I find here in
Arizona. For example, Sonoran Mexican food has a lot of flour
tortillas, chimichangas, burros (burritos), flautas, cheese
crisps and very different desserts (fried ice cream).

I was in my early 20s before I EVER saw flour
tortillas except at Taco Bell. Guacamole salad here is very
different, though I think that's a local Americanism rather
than a true Sonoran difference. It is certainly not as common.
The only Mexican dessert I ever had in Texas was pecan
pralines (sort of hard, not the chewey kind you find in the South.)
-- 
Suzanne Barnett

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