Tasty, juicy, spicy. In this cookbook, we find over 40 recipes from Ivette Perez de Wenkels' family treasure, ranging from soup to main courses, desserts, and refreshing drinks, both vegetarian and with meat. There is something for every lover of Mexican cuisine. For the Berlin-based chef, the book is a very personal memento of Mexico and her family's culinary heritage. The recipes are framed by her personal stories about food as well as historical narratives about certain ingredients. For example, the Maya believed that humans were created from corn, which is why they always had a special place to worship corn. Corn flour is still an essential ingredient in Mexican cuisine today, and tortillerias are to Mexicans what bakeries are to Germans.