Marilyn Tausend is the author of "Cocina de la Familia: More than 200 Authentic Recipes from Mexican-American Home Kitchens" (winner of the IACP Julia Child Award for the Best American Cookbook of 1998), "Mexico the Beautiful, Savoring Mexico", and "Mexican". Ricardo Munoz Zurita is the author of the acclaimed "Diccionario Enciclopedico de Gastronomia Mexican"a, soon to be published in English, in addition to numerous Mexican cookbooks.