Thomasina Miers’ Wahaca: Mexican Food at Home

Thomasina Miers’ new book, Wahaca: Mexican Food at Home has only just been published, but it’s already earned a high ranking in our cook book hall of fame. If you think of Mexican food as lots of beans and a bit of chicken with salsa and guacamole wrapped up in a tasteless flour tortilla, this book will set you straight. It teaches you about real Mexican food, which is infinitely varied and delicious, full of zinging, clean flavours, and which Miers discovered when she went first visited the country when she was 18 and then went to live there, opening up and running a cocktail bar in Mexico City, before returning to London, winning Masterchef, and then opening the first Wahaca restaurant in Covent Garden. Wahaca: Mexican Food at Home, really is a book you want to own, namely because it’s full of recipes for things you want to eat all the time. We’ve already cooked the sopa de guia (a chard, courgette and herb soup that is beyond tasty and delicious), the pork pibil (one of Wahaca’s best selling dishes. SO good to be able to do it at home), and prawns enchipotlada (prawns with tequila, garlic and chilli and herbs) and all of them have been hits we’ll do over and over again.