The Flores Family's El Charro Café Cookbook: Flavors of Tucson from America's Oldest Family-Operated Mexican Restaurant by Jane Stern and Michael Stern

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    from El Charro Cafe Cookbook: Flavors of Tucson from America's Oldest Family-Operated Mexican Restaurant El Charro Cafe Cookbook by Jane Stern and Michael Stern and Carlotta Flores

    • Categories: Egg dishes; Sandwiches & burgers; Breakfast / brunch; American; Mexican
    • Ingredients: eggs; cheddar cheese; flour tortillas; red potatoes; ham; salsa
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  • mjes on September 13, 2021

    Picadillo (hash) (pg 145) This is an exceptionally good recipe for a common food. The addition of potato, tomato, celry, apple ... give the picadillo more body than some recipes.

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  • ISBN 10 1418553832
  • ISBN 13 9781418553838
  • Published Sep 05 2002
  • Format eBook
  • Page Count 232
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Thomas Nelson
  • Imprint Thomas Nelson Publishers

Publishers Text

The colorful history of El Charro Café and the 150 recipes for vibrant, exciting Mexican food make this book as unique and entertaining as the 80-year-old restaurant itself. It is rumored that in the 1940s, founder Monica Flin would sit on the El Charro patio, sipping martinis from teacups and playing cards with John Wayne, who was in Tucson to film westerns. Today the restaurant is run by Carlotta Flores and her husband, Ray. The El Charro Café, America's oldest family-operated Mexican restaurant, is located in a house built in the 1890s by Monica's father (who was also Carlotta's great-grandfather). The restaurant's signature dish is Carne Seca Beef, a Tucson passion. The beef is cured high above the restaurant's patio where strips of thin-sliced tenderloin hang in an open metal cage.

Old favorites and creative new Mexican dishes that are enjoyable to cook and to serve fill the book.

The greatest restaurants in America are its wonderful independent regional restaurants. And there are no greater experts on America's regional restaurants than Michael and Jane Stern. "Coast to coast," said the New York Times, "they know where to find the freshest lobster rolls, the fluffiest pancakes, the crispiest catfish." Rutledge Hill Press is launching a new series of Roadfood™ Cookbooks, each with recipes, pictures, and the history of one of America's greatest regional restaurants.

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