Borderlands: Recipes and Stories from the Rio Grande to the Pacific

A creative, culinary road map for easy-to-follow borderlands cuisine from James Beard Award-winning author Hank Shaw of Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.  The people and the foods along both sides of the border between the United States and Mexico are special, drawing from not only each other's cultures, but also those of the peoples who have lived there long before European contact, as well as from the waves of later immigrants settling the often arid lands between the mouth of the Rio Grande and the shores of the Pacific.  Borderlands: Recipes and Stories from the Rio Grande to the Pacific transports you to this region, with more than 125 recipes and nearly 300 photographs from every part of the border.  Shaw's approachable recipes include tried-and-true standards like Fish Tacos, Chimichangas, and Carne Asada, unusual border specialties like Discada, Mollejas, and Empalmes, vegetarian standouts like Caldo de Queso, Cactus Salad, Nopales Navegantes, and Mushroom Tacos, as well as deeply p