"I traveled Mexico for years on end,
from market to market.
Because Mexico is in its markets..."
Pablo Neruda
Mercados is part travelogue, part cookbook, part encyclopedia and part coffee table book filled with impressive photographs. It is big... really big with 568 pages, 594 color photos, 12 black and white photos, nine illustrations and one map.
Mercados was released in April 2019 after author David Sterling's death (1951-2016). Sterling is probably best known for his book Yucatan: Recipes From a Culinary Expedition (published in 2014), which won rave reviews and two James Beard awards.