Foreword

In this age of hype, you hear a lot about “Buy one, get one free,” But in Zarela Martínez’s unique book, Food From My Heart, she outdoes the hypesters with the real thing. Buy this book as a collection of recipes of exquisite Mexican cuisine and you get—not surprising to anyone with the good fortune to know her—the colorful personal history of Zarela Martínez. Raised on a great ranch in Chihuahua, a world unto itself that she describes in loving detail, she brings to life a family you won’t forget, and a cast of characters that will hold their own against the magic realism of Latin novelists like Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes.