The best Latin American Cooking, Food & Wine books: Reddit reviews

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>In fact, you could probably consider vegan diet to be colonialist and imperialist since it was created with European climate in mind.

Decolonize Your Diet is a vegan Mexican food cookbook.

The fewer materials the better. What got myself and three others to pass was:

1. CISSP All-in-One by Shon Harris https://www.amazon.com/CISSP-All-One-Exam-Guide/dp/0071781749
2. The testing engine hosted by the publisher of #1
3. The test method in: https://youtu.be/wod92WIn92E

Hope this helps!

For English-language, we always recommend Memories of a Cuban Kitchen.

Chiming in to say that Cocina Criolla, by Carmen Aboy, is like the bible of Puerto Rican cooking.

...add to that her other book "Puerto Rican Cookery", and baby, you've got a stew goin'!

Seven Fires, by Francis Mallmann is an absolute gem for cooking with fire. The author is Argentinian, and the recipes are really interesting yet accessible. (Except for the entire half roast cow). I make the chapa bread and pork chops with mustard, sage, and prosciutto often. Gorgeous gift that’s different from the North America standards.

In this book you can find a chimichurri recipe and some other traditional recipes.

Also it will teach you how to cook a whole cow, yeah a whole f***ing cow.

And some other meat cooking styles.

https://www.amazon.es/Seven-Fires-Grilling-Argentine-Way/dp/1579653545

https://www.amazon.ca/Decolonize-Your-Diet-Plant-Based-Mexican-American/dp/1551525925 the most prominent one I can find is this. I've seen some other works on my social media but it doesn't seem like they're popular works so I'll have to re-find them again. I can dm you sources once I do!

I got this book ages ago and it has a number of really good paleta recipes.

Paletas: Authentic Recipes for Mexican Ice Pops, Shaved Ice & Aguas Frescas [A Cookbook] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1607740354/

Here’s the English version: Puerto Rican Cookery https://www.amazon.com/dp/0882894110/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_6XFRHQN1JRTEYN3WF9FQ

And this is the original version, if you know Spanish: Cocina criolla https://www.amazon.com/dp/0882894293/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_Y29NRGBR31J7NRG1S7G7

I follow the turkey recipe, including preparing my own rub (the recipe calls out serving per pound, you have to adjust it according to the weight of the turkey), cooking the stuffing, etc. In addition, I add ripe plantains to the ground beef of the stuffing. And I top the turkey with a sazón packet. I cook the turkey breast down so it absorbs the juices and top with foil. Man, I can’t wait to cook and eat my turkey!

I don't do much on YouTube so I can't really recommend any channels . I do all my cooking from what I learned from my mom and the "Puerto Rican Cookery" cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Puerto-Rican-Cookery-Carmen-Valldejuli/dp/0882894110 -- I've tried to make pan de agua and pan sobao myself but have failed every single time.

Also on a side note if you don’t have it already buy Peru: the cookbook I worked at a restaurant that did a lot of South American type dishes and I loved making stuff from that book.

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Wish I could give 10 up votes to this comment! Gran Cocina Latina is my bible in the kitchen. I love Latin American cuisine from Central to South America and parts of the southwest US where there is a large Latino population. This cookbook as it all. I've given this cookbook as a gift to at least 4 friends and they love it as well.

This article by a Native American vegan might be relevant:

http://www.thescavenger.net/social-justice-sp-24912/animals/768-on-the-right-to-hunt-by-a-native-american-vegan.html

And I've come across Decolonize Your Diet but I haven't read it myself.

Because others have got you covered on the jerk chicken front, I'd just nice to add Memories of a Cuban Kitchen to the list. Nice cookbook.

You should pick up a copy of Francis Mallmann's Seven Fires. There are several great recipes that use a wood oven just like the beauty you built.

While it isn't exclusively South American, https://www.amazon.com/Gran-Cocina-Latina-Latin-America/dp/0393050696 covers South America (as well as Central America and the Caribbean and Mexico). Nice book. I haven't cooked from it yet.

For Brazilian, I've cooked from https://www.amazon.com/Brazil-Culinary-Journey-Hippocrene-Cookbook-ebook/dp/B0030P1WBI/ with tasty success.

Both of my parents are from Cuba and, prior to that, all of my ancestors came from Spain. I live by Mary Urrutia Randelman's Memories of a Cuba Kitchen and make a fair amount of Spanish food as well -- summer basically means tortilla española and tinto de verano. We've been multiple times to visit the parts of Spain that our ancestors came from (Galicia, the Basque country, and Asturias (by way of the Canary Islands)). We celebrate Noche Buena instead of Christmas day. We listen to a lot of Cuban & Spanish music. My sister and I are English-dominant now but both speak Spanish with our parents/extended family. Probably a bunch of other, smaller things.

http://www.amazon.com/Paletas-Authentic-Recipes-Mexican-Frescas/dp/1607740354

This is the book we've been using. Totally worth it. My favorite is the raspberry-hibiscus. You can also blend strong coffee and sweetened condensed milk, then freeze it in molds for Vietnamese coffee pops.

Stick to the Shon Harris guide if you have it: http://www.amazon.co.uk/CISSP-All-One-Guide-Edition/dp/0071781749 The new content added is only about 10%, not 40% or so which what some of the marketing people are saying in order to sell their books. Shon Harris' guide is really good and will give you a solid understanding, there's also a total tester software which has a big database of questions (and is also free)

Enjoy! EDIT: http://www.totalsem.com/total-tester-practice-tests/ this is the link to the tester software you can download. Got plenty of free practice questions on there!

The other comments have covered Mexican cooking, but if you want a resource for Latin America in gerenal, Gran Cocina Latina. It's huge, useful, and shows you just how varied Latino cooking can get.

The first thing I thought of when contemplating what to make for Herbs week was chimichurri. I went with the recipe from Gran Cocina Latina (special thanks to my parents for their ENORMOUS supply of cookbooks that I can pick through). After reading about it, I decided to go with it and that I would play with my new smoker as an added bonus. I rubbed a big slab of top round with garlic, salt and pepper and smoked it for 4 hours or so. I also served the chimichurri with some grilled strip steaks with the same rub and it was excellent with both types of beef. I would probably go with grilled over smoked in the future because the smoky flavor gets pretty overwhelmed by the powerful chimichurri taste. We served this at a party and went through 3.5 pounds of the beef on top of the dozen brats we also grilled. People couldn't stop eating it, just standing in the kitchen and dipping steak into the sauce.

Because chimichurri is so associated with Argentina, I wanted this week's cocktail to have some sort of connection with Argentina. I couldn't find anything until I remembered that Malbec is a big thing down there. I used this recipe for Burnt Sage Sangria using a bottle of Argentine Malbec. Because we were serving to guests, I wanted to something cool with the presentation. I had extra blackberries and so I froze one into each ice cube and used them in the sangria, which you can see in the picture.

Slowly cooked. You have to take your time. Maybe this is too much but if you really want give a try at making argentinian bbq this book is a must

Seven Fires is one of the best books ever written, when if comes to cooking with fire.

Either Diana Kennedy - The Essential Cuisines of Mexico or Rick Bayless - Authentic Mexican. Really any book by either of those authors is going to be good.