Starting her cooking journey from childhood, Mely Martínez has rooted her expertise in family and culture. With her acclaimed cookbook The Mexican Home Kitchen, she successfully transported her fragrant flashbacks into the homes and kitchens of fans around the world. Mely continues her journey by capturing even more of her flavorful recipes in Mexico in Your Kitchen, including authentic dishes inspired by the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Veracruz, Puebla, Estado de México, Tabasco, and Yucatán. In every section, she invites you to experience the taste of Mexico, providing tips and stories that will fill your hearts just as much as your stomachs.

Specialized for the home cook, Mexico in Your Kitchen includes a varied collection of easy-to-follow recipes filled with accessible and fresh ingredients. With an unintimidating approach to authentic Mexican cuisine, Mely includes dishes such as:

• Birria (popular shredded beef stew in ancho pepper broth)
• Sincronizadas (flour tortilla-based quesadilla)
• Gorditas (masa and stuffed cheese)
• Tacos al Pastor (pork shoulder tacos)
• Espegueti con pobiano (spaghetti with cream and poblano peppers)
• Tamales de Hoja de Platano (tamales wrapped in banana leaves)
• Ensalada de nopales (nopales salad)
• Pan de elote (corn bread)
• Sopa de Conchitas (tomato soup with shell pasta)
• Caldo de Camerón (shrimp soup)
• and many more!

Mely Martínez started her blog, Mexico in My Kitchen, in 2008 for her teenage son, hoping that someday he will use it to recreate the Mexican food his mom made for the family. Mely was born and raised in the city of Tampico, Tamaulipas, and started helping in the kitchen at a very young age, since she was the oldest daughter of eight children. She and her siblings spent summers at her grandmother's farm in the state of Veracruz, where part of the daily activities included helping to grind corn for making masa and gathering firewood for the woodburning stove. At the age of twenty, Mely moved to southern Mexico, where she worked as a teacher. This job gave her the opportunity to travel to all the states in the Yucatán Peninsula, and enjoy their excellent and unique cuisine. Throughout the years, she lived in other states in Mexico, and has traveled to most of them. By now, she had moved more than twenty times! Mely enjoys cooking classic meals that are eaten every day in Mexico, and sharing them with her followers around the world. Her recipes are created from knowledge gained throughout her studies, travels, and life experiences. She lives in Dallas, Texas.
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