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Las Fiestas de Frida y Diego: Recuerdos y Recetas (Spanish Edition) [Hardcover]

Marie-Pierre Colle (Author), Marie-Pierre Colle Corcuera (Author), Guadalup Rivera Marin (Author), Ignacio Urquiza (Photographer)
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October 11, 1994
Frida Su nombre evoca misterio y magia y...Mexico. En este nostalgico libro, Guadalupe Rivera, la hija de Diego Rivera, arroja una nueva luz sobre la leyenda. Como dice la propia Guadalupe: "En 1942 la situacion familiar provoco que resultara mas eonveniente que me fuera a Coyoacan, a vivir con mi padre y Frida... lo mas importante que me sucedio fue aprender aver el mundo a traves de la manera de vivir de Frida y Diego."

Guadalupe y Marie-Pierre encuentran a Friday a la Casa Azul en Coyoacan intensamente llenas de vida. Guadalupe nos cuenta de los pericos parloteando en sus jaulas, del chango Fulan Chang, de las tertulias en la famosa cocina de azulejos. Pero sobre todo, nos relata acerca de Friday su manera de dar siempre la bienvenida en su casa.

Frida estaba permanentemente llena de entusiasmo y el menor asunto era causa de regocijo. Celebraba cumpleanos, santos y bautizos, asi como todas las fiestas populares. Por ello, Guadalupe y Marie-Pierre han estructurado este libro en dote fiestas, entre las cuales estan las posadas (durante la epoca navidena), el dia de muertos, la Independencia y una fiesta de gala llamada "La comida de manteles largos".

Mezcladas con los recuerdos de Guadalupe encontramos mas de 100 recetas de la comida traditional mexicana que a Diego le gustaba y que a Frida le encantaba preparar.

Entre las numerosas ilustraciones se encuentran paginas de los libros de cocina de Friday de sus cuadernos de notas, asi como una seleccion de fotografias y reproducciones de sus obras.

Por su parte, Marie-Pierre Colle trabajo con Ignacio Urquiza -- uno de los principales fotografos de Mexico -- para crear las fotografias de las recetas en la Casa Azul y en otros lugares amados y bien conocidos por Frida. Tanto estas como las fotografias de bodegones inspiradas por obras de Frida, se combinan para ofrecernos un libro vibrante, emotionante e inspirador, como Frida misma. Los eonocedores encontraran en Las fiestas de Friday Diego un invaluable agregado a su biblioteca; los que apenas se inician en el mito encontraran una encantadora puerta de entrada.

The Spanish-language edition of Frida's Fiestas. 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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Frida Su nombre evoca misterio y magia y...Mexico. En este nostalgico libro, Guadalupe Rivera, la hija de Diego Rivera, arroja una nueva luz sobre la leyenda. Como dice la propia Guadalupe: "En 1942 la situacion familiar provoco que resultara mas eonveniente que me fuera a Coyoacan, a vivir con mi padre y Frida... lo mas importante que me sucedio fue aprender aver el mundo a traves de la manera de vivir de Frida y Diego."

Guadalupe y Marie-Pierre encuentran a Friday a la Casa Azul en Coyoacan intensamente llenas de vida. Guadalupe nos cuenta de los pericos parloteando en sus jaulas, del chango Fulan Chang, de las tertulias en la famosa cocina de azulejos. Pero sobre todo, nos relata acerca de Friday su manera de dar siempre la bienvenida en su casa.

Frida estaba permanentemente llena de entusiasmo y el menor asunto era causa de regocijo. Celebraba cumpleanos, santos y bautizos, asi como todas las fiestas populares. Por ello, Guadalupe y Marie-Pierre han estructurado este libro en dote fiestas, entre las cuales estan las posadas (durante la epoca navidena), el dia de muertos, la Independencia y una fiesta de gala llamada "La comida de manteles largos".

Mezcladas con los recuerdos de Guadalupe encontramos mas de 100 recetas de la comida traditional mexicana que a Diego le gustaba y que a Frida le encantaba preparar.

Entre las numerosas ilustraciones se encuentran paginas de los libros de cocina de Friday de sus cuadernos de notas, asi como una seleccion de fotografias y reproducciones de sus obras.

Por su parte, Marie-Pierre Colle trabajo con Ignacio Urquiza -- uno de los principales fotografos de Mexico -- para crear las fotografias de las recetas en la Casa Azul y en otros lugares amados y bien conocidos por Frida. Tanto estas como las fotografias de bodegones inspiradas por obras de Frida, se combinan para ofrecernos un libro vibrante, emotionante e inspirador, como Frida misma. Los eonocedores encontraran en Las fiestas de Friday Diego un invaluable agregado a su biblioteca; los que apenas se inician en el mito encontraran una encantadora puerta de entrada.

The Spanish-language edition of Frida's Fiestas. 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.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 223 pages
  • Publisher: Clarkson Potter; 1st edition (October 11, 1994)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 0517700441
  • ISBN-13: 978-0517700440
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.6 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,848,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Intimate Memories, Labor-intensive Recipes, June 30, 2000
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Renee Thorpe (Karangasem, Bali) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Las Fiestas de Frida y Diego: Recuerdos y Recetas (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)
Do get this book if you are a big Frida Kahlo fan. Her step-daughter's memories are somewhat interesting; it's a good read that sits with dignity on either a bedroom night stand or the coffee table or the cookbook shelf.

Don't get this book if you want to start to learn Mexican cooking. It's not a beginner's cookbook!

Do get this book if you have kitchen help and/or if you have some experience with Mexican ingredients (and access to them) and Mexican recipes/dishes. In Asia I have succeeded in making the smothered pork sandwiches (associated with a baptism Frida attended) and some of the other simpler recipes.

If you like the format of Like Water For Chocolate, you'll like this special book. Nicely illustrated with photos of all the food in beautifully styled presentation.

Bonus for art lovers: the cover and some of the illustrations are re-creations of paintings by Frida... tour de force still-life photography!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Artfull - Evocative - Nostalgic, September 26, 1998
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Artfull, evocative, and nostalgic are three adjectives that can give a sense of what the reader will find in this book. Renowned photographer Ignacio Urquiza, and Marie-Pierre Cole teamed again to bring us "Las Fiestas de Frida y Diego". In it, through the superb photography of Ignacio Urquiza, you will be carried to the spaces that were central in the life of the artists. Soon after you start going through the pages of the book, you forget about the carefully explained recipies, and shift your attention to the profuse anecdotes collected by Marie-Pierre, directly from Diego's daughter, Guadalupe Rivera, and the sublime photography of Urquiza.
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5.0 out of 5 stars my favorite mexican cooking book, May 5, 2009
This review is from: Las Fiestas de Frida y Diego: Recuerdos y Recetas (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)
Amongst all mexican cooking books i bought over time, this is THE favorite one and i often return to it in pursue of inspiration. Besides the nice anectodes about Frida and Diego's life, i find this book invaluable because the recipes are very accurate and the photos match the real results that you get if you follow the instructions. Even if it is not a beginner's book, the recipes are well explained. You can even check out if i am cheating or not, just go to tlazolteotl.blogspot.com and have a look at the mexican recipes, most of them come from this very book, i.e. colchones de naranja, pipián blanco, pipián verde, flan de piñones, puntas de filete al albañil and others!
If you like traditional mexican food there is no doubt, this book is a must-have.
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