Ama: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen

$Ama: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen$

Ama: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen

An Eating the West Award Finalist 2020

Tex-Mex is a tasty, flippant food that consolidates the profound conventions of Texan and Mexican cooking. Think substantial stews, breakfast tacos, and tres leches cake. Home cooks will figure out how to make them all—notwithstanding crunchy plates of mixed greens, slow-cooked meats, and new mixed drinks—in this assortment of in excess of 100 plans from San Antonio local and Los Angeles culinary expert and restauranteur Josef Centeno. Coordinated into sections by sort of food—including breakfast, vegetables, primary courses, pastries, and a super nacho party—this is down-home cooking and flame broiling at its generally moving. Introduced in a vivid bundle with in excess of 100 food and climatic photographs, this cookbook is an involved victor for any individual who adores huge flavors, easygoing gatherings, and starting up the barbecue.

About the Author
Josef Centeno is the chef-owner of the Centeno Group, which includes the award-winning restaurants Bäco Mercat, Bar Amá, and more. He is the coauthor of the cookbook Bäco and lives in Los Angeles.

Betty Hallock is a journalist and food writer, and former deputy food editor of the Los Angeles Times. She is the coauthor of Bäco and lives in Los Angeles.

Ren Fuller is a Los Angeles–based food and lifestyle photographer.

There are wonderful recipes, tips and techniques here that I have found nowhere else, for delicious food I’ve yearned to be able to recreate in my own kitchen. I have many Mexican, southwestern and Tex-Mex cookbooks, and this one stands out for its fresh, personal approach based on what the author’s own family has cooked for generations in addition to his own culinary adventures. --Sassafras

Wow.. what a fantastic book! After a somewhat hard to approach, but the amazing first book, Baco,.. Ama is incredibly accessible to most cooks. All of the recipes I have tried so far have been amazing! It was also a featured book in a cookbook club, and it was one of the most popular books of all time! If I had one small nitpick.. it that the actual book is a bit taller than some others so that can make it not fit on certain shelves of mine. --Trent Vermon

I love this book. I have to say that I was a little skeptical of a Tex-Mex recipe book but having enjoyed his Bäco cookbook and his instagram account I decided to buy it. I am so glad I did. The food is not the greasy salty cheesy food one associates with Tex-Mex food. The recipes remind me so much of Northern Mexico food with a gourmet and more flavorful twist. Everything I have made from this book has been fantastic. I always have in my fridge the pickled habaneros and the preserved kumquats and I make another batch before I run out. The flour tortilla recipe is different from any I had seen because it calls for milk but these are the softest flour tortillas I have ever had. Wonderful book. --Mlg

Ama: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen