Your new book.

[Jeremy]

Besides from offering great recipes, what else did you want to achieve with your new book "Mexican Everyday"?

[Rick Bayless]

Glad you asked. The joke around here is that after 25 years, I have finally learned how to write simple recipes. It really did take me that long to learn how to condense my knowledge of Mexican cooking into a book made of recipes that basically take 30 minutes--and with ingredients that you can find in your neighborhood grocery store. Still have flavor, and authentic too. The biggest motivation was my lifestyle and my need to talk about everyday cooking and eating versus what I call celebration eating. I always get asked, "How can you be so slim and cook all that good food?". I can do it because I have learned what everyday eating is and I wanted to share that in a way that I knew how.