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Hardcover: 226 pages

Publisher: Hippocrene Books (March 31, 2005)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0781810566

ISBN-13: 978-0781810562

Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds ()

Book Description
More than a cookbook, My Mother’s Bolivian Kitchen is a memoir of a Bolivian childhood. In addition to a comprehensive collection of Bolivian recipes, for everything from salteas (meat-filled pastries) and quinoa soup to picante de pollo (spicy chicken), Sánchez-H. shares many childhood memories. He takes the reader to his Aunt Nazarias sixty-ninth birthday party to feast on picante de pato con chuño (spicy duck with freeze-dried potatoes; to observe El Día de Todos Santos (All Saints Day) when bread is baked in honor of the deceased; and camping in the mountains where the memory of his mother’s food leads him home. These memories, among others, demonstrate the importance of food in Bolivian culture.

Reader Reviews
Jose Sanchez is a resident of Long Beach, California. He is originally from Bolivia. My Mother's Bolivian Kitchen is memoir as cookbook. In it Sanchez tells stories about his memories of his mother, who was hit by a drunk driver in the late 1990's, his memories of childhood, his memories of family and how all three are intimately connected with food. I found his memoir about being lost at age five in the cemetery during Todos Santos day particularly touching. It's like that memory of seeing Dumbo or Bambi for the first time as a little kid and seriously considering what it would be like not to see one's mother ever again. Or for me, how real that pain still is as an adult when a beloved one leaves us either through death or through mental disability. The theme of La Carne reminds me, with chuckles, of Rebecca Goldstein's essay Looking Back On Lot's Wife in the anthology Out of The Garden. In both an elementary age child is frightened by a misinterpretation of how sinful everyday child behavior might be. On October 16, 2005 Sanchez gave a reading from My Mother's Bolivian Kitchen at the First Congregational Church of Long Beach. After the reading attendees were offered samples of recipes from the book cooked by congregants. The food was delicious. You can hear excerpts from that reading by listening to Episode 11 of Adreana In Long Beach, which can be found at www(dot)AdreanaInLongBeach(dot)Blogspot(dot)com. Sanchez is a filmmaker, a scholar and a professor. He learned to cook Bolivian food after leaving Bolivia to study in Mexico at the age of eighteen. He is also the author of The Art & Politics of Bolivian Cinema. He has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and he is a professor at California State University Long Beach in the Film & Electronic Arts Department.

My Mother's Bolivian Kitchen: Recipes and Recollections
by Jose Sanchez-H.
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