In this long-awaited follow-up to the original Santa Fe School of Cooking Cookbook, authors Susan Curtis and Nicole Curtis Ammerman share dozens of new recipes, techniques, traditions, and flavors from one of America's culinary hotspots.

This charming spiral-bound cookbook takes its name from Adela Amador's much-loved food column in New Mexico Magazine, "Southwest Flavor." Organized seasonally, it pairs recipes and "slice of life" stories like "It's raining snakes and toads," with a recipe for margarita pie and Adela's anecdote about a summer cloudburst and hundreds of tiny frogs. Then there was the time Adela and her mother were roasting chile and the stove blew up! Adela describes how the reader can roast chile (with no risk to life or limb), and includes both savory and sweet chile recipes. Her childhood recollections take us back to her days growing up in northern New Mexico, with memories of the magical Christmas lights of Madrid, New Mexico (and the tamales that accompanied that holiday), and of being serenaded as a young girl on New Year's Eve, with a recipe for the posole that her family prepared. Dozens of traditional recipes enhance Adela's "tales," edited by New Mexico Magazine editors Emily Drabanski and Walter K. Lopez. The volume includes a glossary of Spanish food names and terms, and an index.

A food-history cookbook celebrating the spirit and flavors of what is now the American Southwest.

More than 275 easy-to-follow recipes combining current tastes with traditional foods.

"Solid piece of work, lushly illustrated."--FOOD & WINE. "One of the great cookbook bargains of the year with a series of free cooking shows."--CHICAGO TRIBUNE. "May be the only Southwestern cookbook you need to own."--RESTAURANTS & INSTITUTIONS. "Southwest food is still all the rage & it's fun to see all these celebrity chefs, including John Sedlar, Dean Fearing & Robert DelGrande, in one regional book. Recommended for any library seeking materials on the Southwest."--LIBRARY JOURNAL. 208 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 with color photographs on every other page featuring over 60 chefs of the Southwest & West. Companion book to the television series, "Great Chefs of the West". In addition to over 180 recipes, there are sections on party recommendations, ingredient mail order & step-by-stepillustrations on preparing Mexican dishes.