The Good Life: New Mexican Food
Sante Fe, NM: San Vincente Foundation, 1949. First Edition. 8vo. 96pp. Recipes; Glossary; Index. Designed by Merle Armitage; drawings by Gerri Chandler. Original yellow paper boards with black lettering and red design to front cover in like dustjacket; red endpapers. Small bookseller label inside front board. some fading and small stain to spine; light general wear; a very good copy. Item #23523
"Together with the foods used and its preparation, The Good Life brings to light the year round life of the people of the New Kingdom and their customs..." - Introduction. An important and influential early work on New Mexican regional cuisine and Hispano foodways, combining recipes with a fictionalized account of the Turrieta family and descriptions of seasonal customs, celebrations, agriculture, and village life in northern New Mexico. Cabeza de Baca Gilbert drew upon her work among rural New Mexican communities to preserve culinary traditions and cultural practices that might otherwise have been lost.
Price: $450.00