New Cookbook from the Owner of Fonda

If you’ve always wanted to make dishes as good as those found at the 7th Avenue Mexican restaurant Fonda, now you can, with owner Roberto Santibanez’s new cookbook Tacos, Tortas, and Tamales. The recipes are based on Mexican street food traditions, as this description from a Wall Street Journal review explains:

…not hard-shell fast-food tacos filled with ground beef and Day-Glo yellow cheese, but dishes from taquerias and food trucks in Mexico (tacos with duck and habañero cream sauce, with roasted poblanos and crème fraîche, with beef tongue and even chopped liver). To my delight, there is even a Yucatán version of the pork tacos I remember from Chiapas, complete with pickled red onions. Mr. Santibañez recipes are unusual but easy to follow and he includes such oddities as strawberry tamales, tequila-raisin ice cream and peanut limeade.

We apologize for making you hungry for this on a Monday, which happens to be the one day Fonda is closed. But if you get the urge to snack before you pick up a copy of the book (which is available now at Park Slope’s Community Bookstore), they’ll be open again tomorrow at 5pm, and yes, they deliver.