We studied the Doña Tomàs cookbook, of the eponymous Oakland Cal-Mexican restaurant, by cooking a few recipes for a dinner party. We tried three, and we can safely say that Thomas Schnetz and Dona Savitsky's batting average with the clumsy home cook is a respectable .667. We had a decent success with the budín de elote, a recipe of which you can find here. It was a fluffy corn pudding with bits of zucchini, light......

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