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Books by Zarela and Family
Written on 3 Mar, 2014 at 19:48 in Zarela Martinez Press Kit |
ZARELA’S VERACRUZ (Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001, 352pp.) Veracruz, the lush strip of land bordering the Gulf, is home to the most accessible cooking in all of Mexico. There could be no better guide to this exciting region than the joyfully... (Continue reading)
Videos and Apps
Written on 3 Mar, 2014 at 18:54 in Zarela Martinez Press Kit |
Cooking with Zarela on You Tube Home Rendered Lard Tamales 1.2.3 Pico de Gallo and Tomatillo Sauce from Zarela Restaurant Working with Red Chiles Griddle-Roasting Vegetables Corn Tortillas, Sopes, Picadas etc Egg Batter for Lamprear Peeling and Working with... (Continue reading)
Notable Events
Written on 3 Mar, 2014 at 18:42 in Zarela Martinez Press Kit |
Photos of Recent Events Cooking for the Jets for Mexican Independencewith Drew Nieporent Pig Island, Labor Day weekend 2013 • The best chefs (25+) from all five boroughs going hog wild with locally-, pigs from Flying Pigs Farm, Møsfund Mangalitsa,... (Continue reading)
Mexican Thanksgiving – Stuffed Suckling Pig or Pavo Borracho (Drunken Turkey)
Written on 15 Nov, 2013 at 22:31 in Featured, Special Days |
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... (Continue reading)
Mother’s Day Celebrating Success Stories
Ernesto Villalobos, Aaron Sanchez, Marissa Sanchez and me in between tToday I learned that the idiotic, bigoted and pathetically uninformed policy analyst for the conservative Heritage Foundation, who coauthored an article blasting the new immigration reform proposal stating that... (Continue reading)
Visiting and Tasting Queretaro Mexico
All photos by Pedro Luis de Aguinaga See some more photos here. More to come For years my friends Jim Dickson and William Garcia have been raving about Querétaro and for one reason or another, I had never... (Continue reading)
Christmas at the ranch many years ago and now
Written on 17 Dec, 2012 at 22:13 in On Zarela's Mind, Special Days |
My personal memories of the Christmas season are probably different from those of southern Mexicans, for we had many Americanized customs in the north. The whole thing came back to me vividly a couple of years... (Continue reading)
Brussels sprouts with chorizo
You either love or hate Brussels sprouts but for those who love them here is an exceptional way fo preparing them that my son Aaron came up with it. At my restaurant Zarela we use our homemade chorizo instead of... (Continue reading)
A first taste of canteloupe
Written on 24 Aug, 2011 at 0:36 in On Zarela's Mind |
Today Ife let me give Yuma his first taste of cantaloupe and, like a true gourmand he first smelled it and started grabbing for this beautifully colored fruit. I ground it up and gave him first a taste of the... (Continue reading)
Citymeals on Wheels
Written on 14 Jun, 2011 at 9:16 in Events, Past Events |
= Last night my son Aaron and I have the great honor of participating in the grand Citymeals on Wheels benefit at Rockefeller Center. Ruth Reichl picked the theme of Family Meals so many of us who have given birth... (Continue reading)
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