Collection of historic Mexican recipes goes digital 

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The University of Texas at San Antonio is home to a collection of more than 2,000 historic Mexican recipe books. During lockdowns due to the coronavirus, they are releasing collections of these recipes online as free e-books so that cooks can enjoy them at home. Host Carol Hills speaks with Amy Rushing, the assistant dean of Special Collections at UTSA libraries, and Rico Torres, the chef and co-owner of Mixtli, who wrote the forward for the first e-book.

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