If you think New Mexico cooking is all about burritos and enchiladas, you're in for a surprise!

Long before eating “farm to table" was de rigeur, New Mexico's small farms and ranches provided its families and communities with homegrown vegetables, fruit, milk, meat and eggs. The state's traditional cuisine, a mixture of Indian, Spanish and Mexican flavors, is quite unique. Now, you can learn the secrets and make the signature dishes wherever you call home.

Interspersed with recipes for preparing New Mexico's distinctive bounty are profiles of its best food producers and purveyors, highlighting honey, pistachios, lavender, sweet peas, garlic, corn, lamb, beef, buffalo, goat cheese, apples and pears, as well as New Mexico's famous chiles. Learn the foodways of family farms and ranches, mom-and-pop cafes, and spirited restaurants and meet the people who love preparing and presenting this nourishing and delightful cuisine.

The New Mexico Farm Table Cookbook passes on to home cooks everywhere the state's most treasured recipes and techniques and its fresh takes on traditional ingredients; soon you'll be making the best green chile cheeseburgers, sourdough biscuits, chile rellenos, empanadas, mole and more with readily accessible ingredients and simple, clear directions, alongside 100+ color photographs. Bring some New Mexico enchantment to your kitchen!

• Paperback
• 208 pages
• 10" x 8"