An Evening full of Real Mexican Food

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Yesterday evening, our day’s work done, a group of us hotfooted it over to Covent Garden Waterstones in happy and hungry anticipation. Our lovely authors Felipe Fuentes Cruz and Ben Fordham, co-founders of Benito’s Hat Mexican Kitchen, had invited people to come along to celebrate the publication of Real Mexican Food, a book packed to bursting point with tantalizing recipes for burritos, tacos, salsa and as we discovered, much more! 

Felipe hard at work!

Felipe, whose grandmother provided much inspiration for the recipes in the book, treated us to a demonstration of how to make an authentic salsa verde, using fresh green chillies and tomatillos. Not for this chef the mosquito whine of a high-tech blender. Instead he gently pulverized the ingredients in his trusty molcajete or pestle and mortar – a giant-sized volcanic rock of an affair. Then we sampled totopos (homemade tortilla chips), delicious and as far removed from a Dorito as you could care to imagine. There were also little bowls of esquites (oregano sweetcorn with crumbled feta cheese), tostadas de frijol (fried tortillas with black beans) and taquitos dorados de papa con dos quesos (little fried tacos filled with the fluffiest mashed potato, cheddar and feta). What a winning combination! All recipes included in the glorious book.

Delicious Esquites

Staff from Benito’s Hat weaved through the crowd carrying aloft trays filled with mini margaritas, so that before long the sound of Felipe’s pestle upon mortar was accompanied by a contented schlurping through straws and a steady sound of munching.

It was a veritable Feast

 We’re over the moon to have published this book and to have the chance to work with people like Ben and Felipe, whose passion for good food is as contagious as it is genuine. And how pleased it makes us that despite the growing rise of the use of Kindles, people still pick up books and marvel at the beauty of them. Thank you for hosting the event Waterstones. That was a lovely evening!