Latinamerika

The long-awaited, best-selling cookbook from Mely Martínez, The Mexican Home Kitchen, compiles the traditional home-style dishes enjoyed every day in Mexican households, with …

Gran Cocina Latina unifies the vast culinary landscape of the Latin world, from Mexico to Argentina and all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean. In one volume it gives …

By universal acclaim, Diana Kennedy is the world’s authority on the authentic cuisines of Mexico. For decades, she has traveled the length and breadth of the country, seeking out …

Some twenty years ago, anthropologist Carlos Castaneda electrified millions of readers by describing his initiation--under the Yaqui Indian "brujo" Don Juan--into an alternate …

The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique. Featuring twelve case studies, based on original historical …

The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: it led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the …

The Aztecs were a philosophical people who held that the top goal in human life is not happiness but the pursuit of what they called ‘neltiliztli’: a life in truth. Our world, they …

Innan Juan Rulfos roman Pedro Páramo gavs ut 1955 samlade han ihop 17 noveller som han skrivit under flera år och publicerat på olika sätt, och den boken, Slätten i lågor, kom ut …

Mexican food might seem easy to imitate. But a taco with soul? Now that’s a different story. Many have wrestled with this ancient cuisine and its punch-in-the-face flavours. Most …

'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' Guardian In Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The …