Why read The Border Cookbook?

Book cover of The Border Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico

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Now more than ever, Southwestern food is a hugely popular trend. As ingredients are becoming more readily available to at-home cooks, there is a great demand for simple, delicious, and authentic recipes that bring Mexican and Southwestern food to our own tables.
In their James Beard Book Award-winning cookbook, authors…

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1 author picked The Border Cookbook as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jackie Alpers

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The Border Cookbook will teach you just about everything you need to know about the many different styles of Southwestern cuisine from the southern border regions. Trailing from northern Mexico to southern California, across Arizona and up through northern New Mexico, the book is organized by recipe instead of region so you can see how ingredients are uniquely utilized. Headers explain the history and regional significance of each dish.

From Jackie's list on The best books on southwestern regional home cooking.