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My Mother's Bolivian Kitchen: Recipes and Recollections

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Una aventura en la cocina Boliviana
the warm and inviting aroma of home-cooked food
Memoir as cookbook
Dull
South American Cooking

My Mother's Bolivian Kitchen: Recipes and Recollections
Jose Sanchez-H.
Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0781810566

Book Description

More than a cookbook, My Mother's Bolivian Kitchen is a memoir of a Bolivian childhood. In addition to a comprehensive collection of Bolivian recipes, for everything from salteas (meat-filled pastries) and quinoa soup to picante de pollo (spicy chicken), Sánchez-H. shares many childhood memories. He takes the reader to his Aunt Nazarias sixty-ninth birthday party to feast on picante de pato con chuño (spicy duck with freeze-dried potatoes; to observe El Día de Todos Santos (All Saints Day) when bread is baked in honor of the deceased; and camping in the mountains where the memory of his mother's food leads him home. These memories, among others, demonstrate the importance of food in Bolivian culture.

Customer Reviews:

Una aventura en la cocina Boliviana.......2006-04-03

Really enjoyed the family recollections. Brought back memories of my own upbringing. For my birthday, I prepared the banana squash soup. It was a great success. I was almost embarrassed with all of the compliments that were given. The apple flan is
delicious! (not to be eaten very often because of the eggs)
Overall, the book is a wonderful adventure in the kitchen.

the warm and inviting aroma of home-cooked food.......2005-12-09

A friend sent me "My Mother's Bolivian Kitchen," by Jose Sanchez as a Christmas present. What a wonderful book! I began to read it and I couldn't stop. The narrative is extremely captivating: a mix of history, anthropology and food recipes. It is written with great sensitivity and warmth inspired by the author's memories of his mother.

Memoir as cookbook.......2005-10-17

Jose Sanchez is a resident of Long Beach, California. He is originally from Bolivia. My Mother's Bolivian Kitchen is memoir as cookbook. In it Sanchez tells stories about his memories of his mother, who was hit by a drunk driver in the late 1990's, his memories of childhood, his memories of family and how all three are intimately connected with food. I found his memoir about being lost at age five in the cemetery during Todos Santos day particularly touching. It's like that memory of seeing Dumbo or Bambi for the first time as a little kid and seriously considering what it would be like not to see one's mother ever again. Or for me, how real that pain still is as an adult when a beloved one leaves us either through death or through mental disability. The theme of La Carne reminds me, with chuckles, of Rebecca Goldstein's essay Looking Back On Lot's Wife in the anthology Out of The Garden. In both an elementary age child is frightened by a misinterpretation of how sinful everyday child behavior might be.

On October 16, 2005 Sanchez gave a reading from My Mother's Bolivian Kitchen at the First Congregational Church of Long Beach. After the reading attendees were offered samples of recipes from the book cooked by congregants. The food was delicious. You can hear excerpts from that reading by listening to Episode 11 of Adreana In Long Beach, which can be found at www(dot)AdreanaInLongBeach(dot)Blogspot(dot)com.

Sanchez is a filmmaker, a scholar and a professor. He learned to cook Bolivian food after leaving Bolivia to study in Mexico at the age of eighteen. He is also the author of The Art & Politics of Bolivian Cinema. He has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and he is a professor at California State University Long Beach in the Film & Electronic Arts Department.

Dull.......2005-08-29

I was so disappointed in this cookbook. Bolivia gets overlooked, lumped into a group with Peru and Chile or misrepresented in so many South American cookbooks that I was anxiously awaiting this book devoted to Bolivian cooking. Bolivia is a colorful country, vibrant in culture and food I had hoped this cookbook would present this vibrancy. Instead, it is one of the dullest cookbooks I've bought. The stories are boring, the photos are black and white and of poor quality and the author makes no attempt to describe the uniqueness of some of the Bolivian ingredients nor does the author offer appropriate substitutions. I showed this cookbook to my Bolivian friends and they were also disappointed; they didn't even recognize many of the dishes this Sanchez included. I teach a South American cooking class and I do a better job of presenting Bolivian culture and food to my students than this cookbook did. Hippocrene should be ashamed of the product they published. The cover of the cookbook is in color and looks great so why didn't Hippocrene carry that into the interior of the book. I expected a better book from a native Bolivian.

South American Cooking.......2005-08-02

I bought this book out of a sense of nostalgia - I spent a year in Bolivia, and the descriptions of the foods and the cities brought back a lot of memories for me. However, I did find a couple of typos in the recipes, and some of them seem incomplete somehow, as if there were a step missing. However, the recipes that I did make turned out quite well. Good luck finding some of the ingredients, though.

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