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| Frida's Fiestas: Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo | 
 enlarge | Authors: Marie Pierre Colle, Guadalupe Rivera
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $37.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (27 reviews)
Sales Rank: 35070
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0517592355
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5972
EAN: 9780517592359
ASIN: 0517592355
Publication Date: September 20, 1994
Release Date: September 20, 1994
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Product Description
In the tradition of the best-selling Monet's Table, Frida's Fiestas is a personal account in words and pictures of many important and happy events in the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, and a scrapbook, assembled by her stepdaughter, of recipes for more than 100 dishes that Frida served to family and friends with her characteristic enthusiasm for all the pleasures of life.Full-color photographs.
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 Food for the eyes November 25, 2008
Great Book! Great pictures, great recepies, well written and it is dedicated to a great woman.
Beautiful, interesting book October 22, 2008
This book might not be perfectly edited, but it is beautiful just to page through and the recipes and clippings are very interesting.
Frida's Fiesta's October 11, 2008
Great history and stories re: Frida and Diego, fabulous pictures of their kitchen, great pictures of traditional mexican cookware. Education re: holiday's and special occasions Frida and Diego celebrated.
Frida's Fiestas June 10, 2008
This is a fascinating book with gorgeous photographs of fiestas which would have been prepared by Frida for parties at home in Mexico. We all know that Frida was an extraordinary artist, but it's quite an eye-opener to find out that she was also an outstanding cook!
 Lovely book, recipes need an editor. May 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Since everyone has raved about this book, perhaps I'm looking at an old edition (1994). I agree that the photos are beautiful and the stories wonderful, but in the version of the book I have the instructions for the recipes are in the wrong order. For example, for Chiles en Nogada, the first sentence of the recipe's instructions are "Rinse the chiles and pat them dry. Spoon some of the filling inside each one..." Well, you have to go down the the second to last paragraph to get the instructions for making the filling. Obviously, the recipe should first tell you how to make the filling. Also in this recipes, it tells you to pour the walnut sauce over the chiles, BEFORE it tells you how to make the walnut sauce.
I have published a cookbook and these type of errors mean one thing: an editor who has not read the recipes and thought them through! (Much less tried to follow the recipes.) I noticed that in several of the recipes I've used, I have, with my editing pen, moved paragraphs around with arrows so that the instructions are in the right order.
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