Carnitas: The Mexican Cuisine Society Game Created by Ruth Paget
I used The Best Mexican Recipes by America’s Test Kitchen to develop this game, but you can use other Mexican cookbooks as well such as 1,000 Mexican Recipes by Marge Poore.
You will need index cards to create your own playing cards. Writing out the cards is a trick to help memorize information.
Playing this game will expand your knowledge of Mexican food either as a customer, server, home or restaurant cook, or grocery store buyer.
Tip for memorizing: Use the alphabet to help recall ingredients.
Game 1: Dish Name – Dry Ingredients
Write the dish name on the front of an index card. Write the dry ingredients on the back excluding spices and herbs. (The game for spices and herbs follows.)
Flip the index cards to play solitaire, with a partner, or as teams.
Game 2: Dish Name – Wet Ingredients
On the front of an index card, write the dish name. On the back of the index card, write the wet ingredients.
Flip the index card to play solitaire, with a partner, or as teams.
Game 3: Dish Name – Spices and Herbs
On the front of an index card, write the dish name. On the back of the index card, write the names of the spices and herbs used to make the dish.
Flip the cards to play solitaire, with a partner, or as teams.
Game 4: Dish Name – Cooking and/or Assembly Techniques
On the front of an index card, write the dish name. On the back of the index card, write the techniques used to cook and assemble the dish.
Flip the cards to play solitaire, with a partner, or as teams.
You can use this game to learn about all the cuisines of the world that have cookbooks. Some of the cookbooks I have used to learn about different cuisines of the world follow:
-Delicioso: The Regional Cooking of Spain by Penelope Casas
-1,000 Spanish Recipes by Penelope Casas
-The Good Food of Italy by Claudia Roden
-Mediterranean Cookery by Claudia Roden
-Essential Pepin: More than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food by Jacques Pepin
-Complete Book of Indian Cooking by Suneeta Vaswani
-Complete Chinese Cookbook by Ken Hom
-Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art by Shizuo Tsuji
-From the Source – Thailand by Lonely Planet Food
-Vietnamese Home Cooking by Charles Phan
-Maangchi’s Big Book of Korean Cooking by Maangchi
-The New German Cookbook by Jean Anderson and Heidi Wurz
-Classic Russian Cooking by Elena Molokhovets
-The Cooking of Eastern Europe by Lesley Chamberlain
-1,000 Mexican Recipes by Marge Poore
-Joy of Cooking by Rombauer Family (4,000 recipes in 75th anniversary edition. Very good on baking)
-California Home Cooking by Michele Anna Jordan - 400 recipes from a chef and caterer
-The New Cook's Tour of Sonoma: 150 Recipes and the best of the region's food and wine by Michele Anna Jordan
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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