Over 150 Easy Mexican Recipes for Cinco de Mayo, everyday meals and other special occasions. Plus Mexican Desserts that satisfy your sweet tooth.

Traditional Mexican cuisine is a comprehensive cultural model, encompassing farming and cooking processes, ritual practices, age-old skills, culinary techniques, ancestral community customs and manners, as well as food-related art. As such, it contributes to the preservation of local, regional and national identities. It is based on the use of basic staples such as corn, beans and chilies; unique farming methods including “milpas” (rotating swidden fields of maize and other crops) and chinampas (man-made farming islets in lake areas); and cooking techniques like nixtamalization and lime-hulling to improve nutrition. Native ingredients such as varieties of tomatoes, squashes and avocados enhance the basic staples.

Mexico in my Kitchen is proud to be able to share these authentic Mexican recipes and their stories with the world. Each article describes an authentic home-style meal from a specific region of the country and includes a step-by-step process, photos and background information. As a result, readers can easily replicate these dishes in their own homes. This is one of the reasons why UNESCO recognized Mexican culinary traditions with a World Heritage designation, joining the Giza pyramids, the Eiffel Tower and Machu Picchu in that esteemed group.