Healthy Fiesta Mexican Cookbook Author:Jacqueline Higuera McMahon Replace salt and fat with chile and spice! — The Healthy Fiesta is a cookbook for people who love Mexican and Southwestern foods bur not the high calories. Though Mexican is the most popular of ethnic cuisines in the United States, it is a cuisine often embellished with sour cream, high fat cheese, and the great amount of lard and oil used in pre... more »paration.
The food customs of Mexico, the Southwest, California, Texas and other areas where Latin cuisine is enjoyed possess the elements of nutrition recognized today: carbohydrates like beans, rice, pasta, tortillas and indigenous vegetables. In The Healthy Fiesta, Jacqueline Higuera McMahan concentrates on these good elements, giving subjects such as beans more eloquence while committing the healthy sacrilege of banishing fats from the traditional foods - all done by exploring California salads, a wealth of Mexican soups, the Southwestern foods of beans, maize, and chiles, and Latin fruit liquados.
The author feels that even a life of healthy eating deserves special days so she ends by giving her reads indulgences: chocolate is one of her own occasional digressions!« less