Receta A Mexican Breakfast to celebrate The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo for Cook the Books

A Mexican Breakfast to celebrate The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo for Cook the Books By Eliot, on September 7th, 2016 I am hosting the August/September round for Cook the Books featuring F.G. Haghenbeck’s The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo. This historical novel is based on several notebooks allegedly discovered in Kahlo’s Coyoacán home.  One of these notebooks, entitled by Kahlo as “The Hierba Santa Book” or The Sacred Herbs book is filled with her memories, recipes and The Secret Book chronicles Kahlo’s life from the catastrophic trolley accident of her youth through her tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera.   Along the way, Haghenbeck shares Kahlo’s recipes from the Heirba Santa book in a mystical chronicling of her wonderful…