Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City's Streets, Markets & Fondas Hardcover – July 7, 2015

Simply reading through Lesley's evocative EAT MEXICO, I could smell the crisping chicharrón, the pots of herbaceous green mole, the toasty corn masa crisping on the comal. This is a delicious work of tender, first-hand exploration...open any page and you'll be immediately drawn into a world of honest, irresistible flavors. (Rick Bayless)

Wandering through the streets of Mexico City with Lesley is one of the most delicious and exciting things a person could do. EAT MEXICO took me right back to that trip with amazing recipes and stunning photography that captures the incredible culture found on those streets. (Sean Brock)

Here is a book that love inspired, with vibrant recipes that can be easily duplicated in North American kitchens without losing their essence...and travel tips that will make you want to get on the next plane to retrace Lesley's savvy steps and eat Mexico like a native. (Maricel E. Presilla)

Once, every few months, there appears an exceptional book. Often unexpected, this book will be stunning with almost every page offering a dish that you can already taste. Or a dish that you cannot fathom and that pounds on your curiosity. The exceptional book is rare, treasured, and destined to be your companion for years. EAT MEXICO is that exceptional book. If you are a fan of Mexican food, then you will enjoy this book until you have worn it out. For this is one of those books where you stop on every page and ponder: do I make it now or next weekend? But make each dish you ultimately will. (Brian O'Rourke The Huffington Post)

Her new cookbook, Eat Mexico, is very much a portrait of her personal journey through Mexican cuisine, but it's also a comprehensive treatment of the beautiful everyday food of Mexico City. (Max Falkowitz Serious Eats)

One of Yahoo Food's Best Cookbooks for Holiday Giving in 2015: Eat Mexico by Lesley Téllez brings Mexico City's everyday food scene to life with more than 100 recipes from the city's streets, markets, and fondas. Téllez, a blogger and culinary tour guide, was raised in a Mexican-American home, and lived in Mexico City for four years; she writes with both passion and authority. This isn't quick and easy cooking, but dishes like Green Chicken Enchiladas and Crisp Carrot Tacos are not to be missed. (Lauren Salkeld Yahoo)

Anyone yearning for Mexico's ubiquitous grilled, spiced yard birds can't do better than the roasted chicken in adobo from Lesley Téllez's EAT MEXICO: Recipes From Mexico City's Streets, Markets and Fondas. There's nothing immigrant or Tex-Mex or California about the recipes in Téllez's book, which can make them challenging. ... Don't despair: The champurrado (thickened hot chocolate) and huevos Montuleños are simple to make and as reliably satisfying as the versions I gulped and gobbled in tiny cafes in the Yucatán as a kid. (Cree LeFavour The New York Times)

Followers of Téllez's blog, The Mija Chronicles (www.themijachronicles.com) ― mija is short for "my daughter" ― know the author's keen attention to detail and her embrace of Mexico City's culinary joys. You'll find the same assets in her recent cookbook, "Eat Mexico: Recipes From Mexico City's Streets, Markets & Fondas". (Judy Hevrdejs Chicago Tribune)

As much as I'd love to travel to Mexico City and sample from market stall to stall, eating mole and sipping aquas frescas at countertop restaurant stands, I can recreate the flavors at home with the new cookbook Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City's Streets, Markets & Fondas by Lesley Téllez. (Casey Barber Good Food Stories)

Téllez is a respected authority in Mexican cooking, with her cookbook, “Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City's Streets, Markets and Fondas” giving readers a fantastic trip through Mexican street food. (Ivan Favelevic Chicago Sun Times)

Rating: Three Forks. The recipes are pretty easy to execute. (Paula Forbes epicurious)

Part travel journal, part cookbook, Lesley Téllez homage to Mexican cooking in her book Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City's Streets, Markets & Fondas will have you seeking out your local Latino supermarkets to recreate these authentic flavors of Mexico City. (Andie Huber Mom.me)

In her new cookbook, Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City's Streets, Markets & Fondas journalist, traveler, and Latin food aficionado Lesley Téllez celebrates the growing fame of the food and culture in the capital's streets, fondas, and markets. Billed as a love letter to the intricate cuisine of Mexico City, the cookbook unlocks the city's culinary identity and showcases dishes from its urban centers to its rustic, rural outskirts. (Amanda Cargill The Latin Kitchen)

"Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City's Streets, Markets & Fondas" comes from an author well familiar with Mexico's street foods, and who pairs gorgeous color photos with food images to capture both the culture and the culinary fare of Mexico's streets, from markets to completed dishes. Chile Pasilla Salsa uses chilis and tomatoes in a simple spicy sauce, Mole from the Pot, from central Mexico, is actually a soup and refutes the notion that all moles are thick sauces, and Slow-Cooked Pork Carnitas provides a warming dish that can be made ahead. All are delightful recipes that add an extra dimension to the typical Mexican endeavor. (Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer Midwest Review of Books/California Bookwatch)

If you want to know what it's like to hear the sing song of vendors in the open air markets or tianguis in Mexico City's Colonia Roma or walk along the Centro Histórico's sidewalk food stands, open the pages of Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City's Streets, Markets, and Fondas by Lesley Téllez. In her first cookbook, the California born-and-raised blogger and cultural observer takes us with her on a wonderful culinary tour of the city. We linger over the comida corrida at a neighborhood fonda and look at the street scenes and buzzing markets beautifully captured by award-winning photographer Penny de los Santos. (NBC News)

Téllez spent four years eating food made by street vendors and in markets and fondas. During that time, she wrote Eat Mexico, where she shares some of her favorite recipes for tortillas with fresh nixtamal, taco-stand style salsa, tamales, slow-cooked pork, quesadillas, enchiladas and much more. (Dina El Nabli Edible Feast)

Lesley Tellez grew up in a Mexican-American home in California but didn't know al pastor (chili-marinated pork) from alambre (chopped steak with bacon, peppers and onions) when she first moved to Mexico City in 2009. Yet before long, she became a daily connoisseur of the city's massive network of street vendors, was trained at one of Mexico's premier heritage cooking schools, and started a blog, The Mija Chronicles, selected by Saveur magazine as among the top culinary travel blogs in the US. Lesley also established Mexico City's first culinary tourism business, to focus on street food, markets and fondas, called Eat Mexico. She is currently writing a series for Serious Eats about her cookbook writing experience. Vist her online at themijachronicles.com.