Image: Juana Manuela Gorriti · Public domain
Cocina Eclectica
- Year
- 1890
- Era
- 19th century
- Origin
- Argentina · Americas
- Language
- Spanish
- Category
- Latin America
Cocina Ecléctica, compiled by the Argentine writer Juana Manuela Gorriti and first published in 1890, gathers culinary contributions solicited from women across Latin America and beyond. Organised as an epistolary anthology of signed recipes, it documents domestic cookery from Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and neighbouring regions, offering one of the earliest pan-Latin American compilations and a foundational source for the study of nineteenth-century criollo gastronomy and female literary networks.
Cooking from this book
Locro
Signature dishA thick, slow-simmered stew of maize, squash, beans and meats, locro is one of the emblematic dishes that surfaces in Gorriti's pan-Latin American compendium. Gathered from friends and contributors across the continent, her book celebrates the criollo kitchen as a shared cultural inheritance, and locro stands as a fitting emblem: rustic, communal, deeply rooted in indigenous and colonial traditions, and beloved from the Andean highlands down to the Argentine pampas.
An editorial note on a dish associated with this book, written for The Coquinist. It is not a reproduction of the book's recipe.
