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Rick Martínez brings 'rapture' to the kitchen with his new cookbook 'Mi Cocina'

Tag：Mexico roasted pork sandwiches 2022-05-11 10:53

Rick Martínez brings

In 2019, Rick Martínez set off on a 20,000 mile road trip.

He flew to Mexico, bought a car and traveled to all 32 states in the country, doing research for a cookbook that would capture each regional cuisine of Mexico. Everywhere he went, he asked cooks a simple question: "Out of everything you make, what do you like best?" He picked his favorite meals and adapted them in his new cookbook, Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico.

For Martínez, every recipe in the book is connected to a memory. The tortas de lechón, slow-roasted pork sandwiches, were inspired by the ones he encountered in Aguascalientes. The salsa de chipotle y chile de árbol was inspired by the salsa made by a woman he met in Guanajuato.

Martínez told NPR his goal with this cookbook is to "expand the canon" for what Mexican food in the U.S. can be. "When I was asked to develop recipes for publications or for YouTube, I was always asked to develop a variation of an existing dish. So, a different version of an enchilada or a taco," he said. Mi Cocina showcases the wide breadth of cuisine from Mexico's diverse regions.

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