About this item
Celebraciones Mexicanas: History, Traditions, and Recipes is the first book to bring the richness and authenticity of the foods of Mexico’s main holidays and celebrations to the American home cook. This cultural cookbook offers insight into the traditional Mexican holidays that punctuate Mexican life and provides more than 200 original recipes to add to our Mexican food repertoire. The authors first discuss Mexican eating customs and then cover 25 holidays and festivals throughout the year, from the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Carnaval, Cinco de Mayo, to the Day of the Revolution, with family celebrations for rites of passage, too. Each holiday/festival includes historical background and cultural and food information. The lavishly illustrated book is appropriate for those seeking basic knowledge of Mexican cooking and customs as well as aficionados of Mexican cuisine.
About the Author
Andrea Lawson Gray has been proprietor at San Francisco-based Tres Señoritas Gourmet, a caterer specializing in authentic Mexican cuisine, for the past eight years. Two years ago, she launched Una Señorita Gourmet, a Private, In-Home Culinary Experience. Gray writes a column on Mexican cuisine for the Examiner.com; and her memoir, Survivor, was published in the collection Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, & Themselves, edited by Camille Peri and Kate Moses in 2005. Prior to her move to the West Coast, Gray was the Executive Chef at Taipan Diane in New York City; and before that, Creative/Merchandising Director of Aesthetics Marketing Direct, which she founded, from 1990-1997. Andrea now applies a well-honed sense of design, taste and color to her unique menus and Mexican tabletop designs. She volunteers at International High School of San Francisco, working on Diversity issues and is a single mother of 3, with residences in San Francisco and Tenango de Valle, Estado de Mexico, MX, where Casa La Tia, a small Casa de Huesperas (Guest House) and cooking school is projected to open in the Summer of 2016.
