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Rare Spanish-Language Cookbooks Offer a Taste of History

by Michael Taylor on 2016-11-28T13:42:00-07:00 in CSWR | 0 Comments

Can't decide what to make for Thanksgiving? Stop by the Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections sometime and have a look at our collection of historical cookbooks. Ranging from New Mexico, the Southwest, Latin America, and beyond, they offer not only tasty recipes, but also insights into social and cultural history. Here are a few of the older Spanish-language titles in our collection...

  

Nuevo cocinero mejicano en forma de diccionario (Paris and Mexico City, 1883).  TX349 .N8 1883

   

Angel Muro, Diccionario general de cocina (Madrid, 1892).  TX349 .M8 1892

El cocinero y cocinera mexicanos (Mexico City, 1851).  TX716 .M4 C615 1851

   

Selected images from J. A. Brillat-Savarin, Fisiologia del gusto (Mexico City, 1852).  TX637 .B8618

   

Vicenta Torres de Rubio, Cocina michoacana (Zamora, 1896).  TX716 .M4 T675 1896

Recipe for "Pollos republicanos," from Recetas practicas para la señora de casa (Guadalajara, 1904).  TX716.M4 R43

Jules Gouffé, El libro de cocina (Mexico City, 1893).  TX719 .G6618 1893b

Selection of cookbooks, including (at far right) El consultor culinario (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1898), TX716.U7 P37 1898


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