Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!noao!terak!suze From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: Re: Mexican cookbook recommendations anyone? Message-ID: <674@terak.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 11:50:15 EDT Article-I.D.: terak.674 Posted: Wed Aug 14 11:50:15 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 07:14:14 EDT References: <1442@vax3.fluke.UUCP> <425@ttidcb.UUCP> Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 28 > > Another excellent source of Mexican recipes is from either Sunset or I agree. > > 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 uucp: ...{decvax,hao,ihnp4,seismo}!noao!terak!suze phone: 602 998 4800 us mail: Terak Corporation, 14151 N 76th street, Scottsdale, AZ 85260