My Mexico City cookbook — the project that sprung partially from this blog, and my food adventures and tours in the city — is now available for pre-order! You can find Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City’s Streets, Markets and Fondas on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Powell’s. It’ll be released officially at the end of May/early June.
I’m really proud of how it turned out. Mexico City’s food and culture and vistas jump off the page, due to Penny de los Santos’ excellent photography, the vision of the team at Kyle Books, and the super cool design from DF-based Little Mule Studio. On my end it felt like a privilege to write about wandering through the streets and markets, and the dishes and ingredients that have made such a big impact on me: masa, tortillas, chiles, beans, tamales, moles and salsas.
I’ve written a series on Serious Eats about what it’s been like to write a cookbook, and I’ll be writing one more installment that describes what happens after you turn in the manuscript. In the meantime, if you want me to do an event in your city, let me know! I’ll be sharing some tour dates with you as it gets closer, plus hopefully some recipes that didn’t make it into the book. I’ve also got some fun ideas for giveaways on the blog once the book officially hits the shelves, so please stay tuned.
As always, thank you for reading and sharing this experience with me over the past few years. It’s been completely wild to think that I arrived in Mexico in 2009 without an idea of what I’d do with my time, while mulling in my heart of hearts that I’d like to write a book. Looking at my early advance author copy today, I almost can’t believe that I did it.
OMG Lesley!
This is fantastic.
Congratulations.
OMG!
This is fantastic.
Congratulations.
William A.
My pre-order is in! Congrats!
Lesley, me siento am orgullosa de ti que has completado este sueño por fin. Que gusto que nuestros destinos de cruzaron y que tuve la oportunidad de conocerte. Muchas muchas felicidades y éxito con la venta del libro.
You are incredible and a huge inspiration to me. Congratulations on all of your success!! Including baby Tomas!!!
Aww, thanks, lady. (And I’m sorry for responding to your comment so late!) Hope you can meet T one day!
Hi Lesley!
How can I pe-order your new cook book?
I don’t see where I can orer from yur site?
Congratulations on you new baby boy!!!
Rita Padilla
Hi Rita! If you click on the links to Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Powell’s at the end of the first paragraph in the post above, you’ll see how to order it. Hope to see you when I’m in LA on my book tour!
Congratulations on the publication of your book, Eat Mexico, Lesley. I guess I’m Juanita-come-lately, as I only just read of it this morning in the great interview nbcnews.com did with you. Congratulations also on your other labor of love, little Tomás. What a cute smile he has!
Kathleen
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/flavorful-journey-eat-mexico-author-lesley-tellez-n418966
Thank you Kathleen! It’s great to hear from you. Hope you’ve been well.
Hi, Lesley,
Got your cookbook recently from Amazon. Nice. Maybe the only thing missing is a photo of the author. Made chicken tinga just a couple of days ago. Excellent. Saw a copy of it at Mi Mero Mole in Portland last week. Mi Mero Mole is great by the way. There are several very good Mexican restaurants here in Portland. Those we found in Albuquerque were just so-so.
Some of the things we miss the most about leaving Cuernavaca are the tacos at El Medio Habanero and La Princesa there.
We moved back to Portland from Albuquerque in July so we can requalify for the maximum capital gains tax exclusion when we sell our house in Oregon.