Truly Texas Mexico, A Native Culinary Heritage In Recipes

You will never look at food the same way after reading this beautiful story of a People. First settlers of many parts of the US before there was a US. A people’s heritage 15,000 years in the making and proudly continuing and flourishing to this day. This book is the nexus of family life, surviving through cuisine and making the family whole and keeping important traditions and ways alive. As so many tight ethnic families do.

With exquisite precision the best ingredients for Mexican cuisine. Medrano tells a fascinating and unique story with deep roots, told with such heart, care and cultivation. Not just a cookbook but a book of survival and how food was at its center. Mexico was and still is the cradle of a delicious cuisine spread around the world but at its a core the book gives us an understanding of one of the world’s great cultures that remains creative, imaginative, talented and strong.

Ethnogenesis, anthropology, archeology, drying and preservation techniques so far ahead of their time are still the backbone of today’s best techniques. How they persevered despite great hardships is unimaginable, food held things together. They shared, communed. Yet the story is an old one. A story as interesting, compelling, uplifting, and enlightening as ever told, through respect for the land and the food grown on it. A sharing and educational based culture is a human first concept essential to life on this planet.

The costs were so high when the settlers “discovered” the Americas. Disconnected from their own humanity, the new western migrants brought their slash and burn mentality with them from Europe after decimating the forests and resources there over 500 years ago. They destroyed the Great Plains grasslands, bison, lakes, streams, free and equitable access to lands needed for food cultivation as it had been for thousands of years.

The book reminds all people history didn’t begin two hundred years ago just because victorious nations and her historians wish it away. Fortunately the traditions and ancient knowledge lived on and still lives on despite declaring war with nature and her inhabitants. Common sense resource management, being one with the earth, and one with each other is a goal few have ever seen let along lived in their lifetime. The opposite of sustainability.

The struggle to overcome raising tide of ignorance is tied in every way how, where, and how we eat. Discover where truly delicious food originated and how to cook it. First from the heart, second from the hand, third from the soul.

When one understands the importance of family so intrinsically tied to creating rich, succulent and straight-up mouthwatering food, one can begin to understand why this handcrafted, locally sourced cuisine has withstood the test of time. By better understanding the importance the cultures through food (or any other insightful means) the better people we become whenever we walk in someone else’s shoes. Something an artful book does, for example. As this one does. It should be required reading to burst the bubble of living in food and psychological silos starting with woefully underfunded and under-educated kids that otherwise would give hope to a much brighter future learning about cultural differences.

The beauty of this book (eBook format only) is it’s about the power of serving others and the power of massive amounts of love and responsibility it takes to make the perfect dish passed down through millennia! Tacos, feminism, and cultural resistance and how women’s home-cooking saved an indigenous People from extinction by preserving cuisine traditions.

Check out the multi-awarded documentary of the same name on Prime, Google TV and Apple TV from Executive Producer and writer Adán Medrano at https://adanmedrano.com/truly-texas-mexican-documentary-movie/ for more of everything.