Pantry guide
Best Olive oil for home cooking
What Olive oil is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.
Why cooks start here
The green-gold fat of 29 kitchens in the series: a fruit juice that learned to travel, and then to stay.
Use a quiet oil to fry and a loud one to finish. Heat destroys the perfume of a first press; it does not destroy the usefulness of a milder bottle. Taste it on a spoon. If it burns the throat in a pleasant way, save it for tomatoes, beans, and bread.
A soup finished with a thread of good oil is a different soup. So is a tagine, a sofrito, a plate of white beans. Do not be precious about the everyday bottle. Be precious about the one you pour at the table.
Authentic Mexican Cuisine
Bring the full collection home—authentic recipes, cultural notes, and a beautiful book for your table or as a gift.
The Mexican pantry, pots, and table
The spices, mixes, and hearths that belong to Mexican cooking — then the people around them, and the kitchens still joining the table.
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