The Best Mexican Cookbooks

Danny Trejo walks you through Trejo's Tacos with 75 recipes that capture the award-winning flavors of his L.A. cantina—from carnitas to cinnamon-sugar donuts—plus the stories behind them.

Claudia Regalado invites you into Cooking con Claudia to master 100 authentic Mexican recipes—from hand-rolled tortillas to family desserts—and finally feel at home in a Mexican kitchen.

With 700 recipes spanning 9,000 years of culinary mastery, Mexico: The Cookbook by Margarita Carrillo Arronte and Fiamma Piacentini is proof that this cuisine knows exactly what tastes good.

Rick Martínez's Mi Cocina captures 20,000 miles of Mexican cooking—from Mexico City through 32 states—and brings it all home to your kitchen tonight.

Let Bricia Lopez and Javier Cabral walk you through Oaxaca: Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico, where mole negro, chapulines, and 138 other recipes reveal why food and family are inseparable in this luminous cuisine.