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Cookbook review: A Mexican feast of the senses

Cookbook review: A Mexican feast of the senses

By Susan Puckett / For the AJC Troy Warren for CNT ‘Ciudad de Mexico: Stories From the Heart of Mexico City’ by Edson Diaz-Fuentes (Hardie Grant, $40) In the introduction to “Ciudad de Mexico: Stories From the Heart of Mexico City” (Hardie Grant, $40), Edson Diaz-Fuentes describes the link between food and sound in the city where he was born and raised.   “Like an urban bird call, every vendor has their own unique siren,” he writes. There’s the camotes (sweet potato) vendor, “whose whistle is known to all”; the cyclist shouting “tamales calientitos!” (hot tamales!) from street to street; the…
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