Catalán Lamb and Bean Cassoulet
This Catalán lamb and bean cassoulet is not an easy recipe to make but, if you’re stuck at home in a blizzard or want to honor your friends by preparing a complicated and delicious dish, this is it, and it’s worth every minute of intense labor. This is the original...
Mexican Thanksgiving: Stuffed Suckling Pig or Drunken Turkey (Pavo Borracho)?
Every Thanksgiving the big moment to decide comes: Do we want my sister Aida’s marvelous pavo borracho, which is short on looks but big on taste, or a traditional turkey that may or may not come out perfectly but the stuffing will be moist and delicious? Or do...Mexican Pumpkin Recipes
Pork with Mashed Pumpkin (Puerco con Calabaza), Afro-Mexican Pumpkin Soup, Miahuatlán-Style Tamales (Tamales Miahuatecos), Sweet Preserved Pumpkin (Calabaza en Tacha) This Pork with Mashed Pumpkin is one of my absolute favorite Mexican pumpkin recipes. The sauce can...
Sweet Potato Casserole
I’ve been making this sweet potato casserole since I arrived in New York in 1983, when a friend brought one, and it is always on my Thanksgiving menu. But a little about Alex: If a Nordic God were to appear to me he would look like Alex Baker. He’d be tall and...
The many lives of Zarela Martínez
Culinary legend Zarela Martínez introduced finely tuned, highly researched regional Mexican cuisine to a national stage, and has continued to blaze trails for more than three decades.