Novas Himilce - Latin American Cooking Across the U.S.A.

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

Copyright 1997 by Himilce Novas and Rosemary Silva

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York.

http://www.randomhouse.com/

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Macmillan Publishing USA: Manchamanteles and Red Chile Adobo recipes from Food from My Heart: Cuisines of Mexico Remembered and Reimagined by Zarela Martinez, copyright 1992 by Zarela Martinez. Reprinted by permission of Macmillan Publishing USA, a Simon & Schuster Macmillan Company.

ISBN9780679444084

Ebook ISBN9781524732417

LC 97-74754

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To our editor, Judith Jones,

for brilliant, steadfast direction and inspiration

gracias for leading the charge!

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many hearts and hands helped us bring this project to fruition. First we wish to thank the Latino home cooks across America who opened their kitchens, recipe files, and family albums for us, and who generously shared their most treasured ancestral traditions. We also say saludos! to all the Latin restaurateurs, chefs, waiters, shopkeepers, mail-order companies, food lovers, farmers, and gardeners, too numerous to name, who happily passed on their knowledge of dishes, cooking methods, and ingredientsfrom