Elise, I have to agree -- this issue of Gourmet really overflows with good recipes and interesting stories. My own copy now has many dog-eared pages!

Elise--
I too am the daughter of a South Texas Hispanic mother and an Illinois-born German-American father. No one has any idea that I'm Hispanic at all, and people often ask me if I'm Italian! I imagine you may have had similar experiences? Anyway, I feel fortunate to have the dual perspective, and especially the treasure trove of both great Tex-Mex and Midwestern family recipes. Anyway, felt compelled to say hi, and thanks for all your hard work. I love this site, and cook from your recipes all the time! :-)

I love eating and cooking mexican food. I don't have a subscription to Gourmet but I bought a copy of the Sept 07 magazine when I was on a two week trip to Colorado. My fiancee was very anxious for me to make the chile rellenos and tamale recipes in the magazine.

Elise, I've searched hi and low for your Green Chili recipe. I just got done roasted two busels of chilies and freezing them. I would like to try your Green Chili recipe soon. So would you please include it somewhere in your lovely posts in the future?

I am Colombian-American (mom is Scots-Irish-Cherokee from Illinois farmers way back and my dad was Colombian).

Being multicultural is awesome but can also be sorta confusing when your young (especially being Latina growing up in the Midwest)

I will go check out this edition for certain!

I blog a lot on fantastic Colombian foods at Nika's Culinaria. I have a special category for it (Colombian Food at Nika's Culinaria).

I can not stress how many google hits I get for my Colombian recipes and I have had so many heartfelt thank yous for putting up the photographic how-tos that I do.

There are so many people who are really hungering for Colombian (and latino in general) foods and many have no idea how to start to make the core recipes. They want to know but it seems they are having a hard time finding it!

Its great to see it in Gourmet. (did you allude to sancocho? If yes then that would be simply amazing!)

Nika

There's a big bookshop in Inverness which stocks American food magazines at rather extortionate prices. Hoping and praying that they have this one as I'm willing to pay £10 for it!

My hubby hails from Honduras, so I'm always on the hunt for more authentic Latin cooking. There are no recipes written down from his family, either. Always a little of this, a dash of that…basically, whatever is in the house. :) Thanks for the heads-up about the issue! I promptly ran out and purchased.

I've been making tons of recipes from this issue, it's definitely a good one!

Hi Elise. I also live in Tucson and live and breathe Mexican food, culture, etc. I'm not Mexican but I married 2! I learned a lot from mother-in-laws and my own observations. I would love to see some REAL authentic Mexican food and plan to check out this magazine. Thanks.

I loved that issue of gourmet, as a Puerto Rican I was ultra happy to see our food in this magazine and amazed to learn that many of the things that we consider traditional of our island are also shared throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. I think this is one of the best Gourmet issues I've read so far.

Third's the charm. At the third bookstore I stopped in I found the issue. I almost read it cover to cover last night but I had to get to bed! You don't know how excited I was to see recipes for Colombian arepas, Colombian ajiaco and Colombian aji in there. It's not typical that you see Colombian recipes in mainstream American magazines. I'm sure many others from different countries in Latin American feel the same. Thanks for the tip!

Oh my, oh my. I must run out and buy this issue. I am Hispanic from New Mexico, but have lived most of my life in the Northwest. Despite this, first my parents, and then the next generations have never lost our New Mexico traditions or our traditional recipes. We recieve steady supplies of red and green chilis, blue corn meal, pasole, from New Mexico via relatives and when we visit. No member of our Northwest family are allowed to visit New Mexico and come home empty handed, without care packages of our traditional ingrediants. A big no, no, in our family. This has been going on for over fifty years.

The September Gourmet is a really good issue and the Pupusa stall at the Farmers Market is not to be missed. La Bonne Femme, is from Des Moines, and we grab a couple everytime we are there. My favorite pupusa they make is with Loroco, an edible flower, that I think tastes slightly like asparagus. I put some pictures of the Pupusa stall up on my flickr page. http://www.flickr.com/photos/macmac/

Cheers.

I subscribed to gourmet a few months ago, and this is my second issue. Still haven't gotten around into cracking it open, I did however notice, my copy doesnt have any text on the cover except for the Gourmet header and the same picture as the one you posted above. I swear, that's weird. Why is yours a collectors issue, and why is mine not?

Strange, but I hope it's atleast the same on the inside ;)

I am so excited to go out and buy this issue! I grew up in Tucson and I miss Sonoran Mexican food soooo much. I'm looking forward to some good reads and good recipes!

i was born in Virginia, but my parents are from El Salvador. i just LOVE Salvadorean food. If you can, please go out and taste Pupusas from REAL Salvadorean restaurants. If you can, post a recipe. I already make great pupusas, but for your other fans who might be curious about pupusas. I also make great Curtido, the cabbage salsa that accompanies the pupusas. I can give you a recipe if you dont have one yet!

Here we go...for $50 you can get this special issue and 4 others from Conde Nast:

http://www.condenaststore.com/past-issues/gourmet-magazine-special-collectors-issue-collection/invt/133948/

Just bought it, can't wait until it comes in the mail!