Hendrik Varju is a cooking instructor who specializes in Mexican cuisine.ampampnbsp While he lives near Toronto Canada his mother was born in Guadalajara Mexico so Hendrik spent his entire childhood cooking and eating authentic Mexican food.ampampnbsp Hendrik now runs close to 100 cooking classes per year through his cooking instruction business called Passion for Food.ampampnbsp Hendrik also specializes in hosting ampampquotMexican Dinner Partiesampampquot which is coincidentally the name of his first cookbook.A message from HendrikWhen you buy a new cookbook and it has few pictures inside Iampamp39m sure youampamp39re just as disappointed as I am.ampampnbsp As they say ampampquotpictures say a thousand wordsampampquot.ampampnbsp Plus letampamp39s face it we eat with our eyes.ampampnbsp I feel that photos of the various dishes in the book are necessary not only as inspiration for you to try the dishes in your kitchen but also to tell you how each dish should look when plated.ampampnbsp So I decided that this cookbook would have a photo of virtually every dish in the book.ampampnbsp I only left out photos of a couple of salsa recipes because frankly most salsas look alike.ampampnbsp In total this book has 60 recipes in the menu sections and a couple more in the ampampquotTechniques Pagesampampquot.ampampnbsp All told though there are over 100 photos because many show you Mexican cooking techniques as well.ampampnbsp Cookbooks with this many photos are very expensive to produce but I hope youampamp39ll agree that the somewhat higher than usual cost is well worth it to have the extra guidance of clear photography.This cookbook is not just about the recipes.ampampnbsp It also teaches you some of the core Mexican cooking techniques that are common to many recipes.ampampnbsp And since the recipes are organized into six elaborate dinner party menus Iampamp39ve also included a ampampquotStrategy Pageampampquot for each menu that helps you keep things organized in preparati