Download or read book Sabores Yucatecos written by Katharine A. Diaz and published by WPR Books: Comida. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foods of Mexico's Yucat?Peninsula are the focus of the cookbook titled Sabores Yucatecos: A Culinary Tour of the Yucat? This region of Mexico offers foods with an allure that matches the mystique of the ancient Maya. The foods are rich in history and tradition. The book's guide is Chef Gilberto Cetina, who learned the culinary secrets of his mother as a young boy and brought them to his restaurant in Los Angeles, Chich?Itz?estaurant, that specializes in Yucatecan cuisine.Food writer Katharine A. D? assisted Chef Cetina. She has written about Latino cuisine for many national publications as well as for the Encyclopedia Latina (Scholastic Library Publishing). As an amateur chef, she interprets Cetina's delicacies step-by-step for the home cook.Novice or experienced cooks will be fascinated by what they discover about the Yucat?region, its culture and the stories behind its cuisine. They will read how the foods of Spain, the Middle East and the Netherlands influenced the cooking of the region.They will learn about such classic ingredients as lima agria, achiote, recados and chile habanero that give the food its uniqueness. They will learn about a traditional cooking technique called pibil. They will learn to make everything from such delectable appetizers as panuchos and kibis to such main dishes as the region's famous cochinita pibil, puchero de tres carnes and banana-wrapped tamales. And then there are the desserts . . . This is the book that delivers the tastes of the Yucat?