I was paging through the earlier half of EYB's indexed books recently (what a rich era for cookbooks the late 1970s-early 1980s was!*), and came across an entry from 1980 that startled me: The Book of Latin American Cooking: 500 Superb Recipes from All the Latin American Cuisines -- From the Northern Border of Mexico to the Southernmost Tip of Chile, by Elizabeth Lambert Ortiz.
It immediately brought to mind the winner of the EYB prize at this year's IACP awards, Maricel Presilla's Gran Cocina Latina.
Has anyone cooked from Ortiz' book and Presilla's? Thanks to the fact that both are indexed, it's possible to review both the recipe coverage and the ingredients used for similar dishes, but I wondered how they compare in other ways. Does Presilla give a nod to the Ortiz book in hers? It was surely one of the only books in English with a similar ambition.
*With the caution that, unless you're very familiar with when books first appeared, the EYB pub. date can be misleading, as the primary indexed edition to which other versions are linked are often reprints ten or twenty years on from when the book first made its big splash.