Ortega Authentic Family-Style Mexican Cooking

by Victor Villaseñor

Authentic Family-Style Mexican Cooking, Ortega®

73 recipes celebrating Ortega's 100 years of authentic, family-style cooking.

Includes additional historical information about food, in color photos and short written pieces.

29 full-color photographs of finished foods

Genres: Cookbooks

128 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1997

About the author

Victor Villaseñor is an acclaimed Mexican-American writer, best known for the New York Times bestseller novel Rain of Gold. Villaseñor's works are often taught in American schools. He went on to write Thirteen Senses: A Memoir (2001), a continuation of Rain of Gold. His book Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004) describes his life. The author has received awards and endorsements, including an appointment to serve as the founding Steinbeck Chair at Hartnell College and the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, from February 2003 to March 2004.

Reviews

[John Orman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book relates many recipes derived from the history of the Ortega Chile Packing Company of Los Angeles. I mainly studied this book for "authentic" Mexican food recipes. I really liked the ones for fajitas, chimichangas, and burritos!

A special treat here are the chapters on holiday feasts--Fiesta Navidena and Cinco de Mayo Fiesta.

Great recipes with many historical, colorful photos!