recipes

You point out in the book that you conducted over 200 lab tests while working on these recipes.

A quick note on cream: while some recipes call for it, I find it can flatten the lemon flavor and add a kind of blunt richness that undercuts the dish.

He wanted to serve Oaxacan food, incorporating his mother’s recipes and the region’s distinctive drink, mezcal.

A food writer friend and I now send recipes back and forth — nothing too serious, just the kind of thing you'd text if you could send a sandwich or a salad dressing via USPS.

In these tight-knit communities, traditional recipes adapted to new geographies and available ingredients.