Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword, "The table of Baroque feelings/senses" / by Wilfrido Ávila García
  • Artist's statement / by Rolando Briseño
  • pt. 1. Botana/cocktail snack, antojitos/hors d'oeuvres, and an entremés/appetizer
  • How we got our buenos fideos / John Phillip Santos
  • Moctezuma's table and its many readings: meal as art, art as meal / Graciela Kartofel
  • Moctezuma's first dinner / Timothy J. Knab
  • pt. 2. Sopas aguadas y secas/soups
  • Feeding the soul / Daniel del Valle
  • Musings on Moctezuma's table / Isabel Rico
  • La mesa de Moctezuma y la memoria/Moctezuma's table and memory / Blanca Garduño Pulido
  • pt. 3. Platos fuertes/entrées
  • Of moles and maíz: rehistorization of Mexican and Chicano culture / Amalia Mesa-Bains
  • The use of Aztec, Maya, and American popular sources in the work of Rolando Briseno / Jacinto Quirarte
  • Indigenous heritage, culinary diaspora, and globalization in Rolando Briseño's Moctezuma's table / Rubén C. Córdova
  • The globalized table / Kaytie Johnson
  • pt. 4. Frijoles/beans, side dishes
  • Nopales, amor y corazón: legacies of food through love / Josie Méndez-Negrete
  • El pleito / Sandra Cisneros
  • pt. 5. Postres/desserts
  • Precious vessels: recipes old and new for chocolate and all other earthly and celestial delights / Frances Treviño
  • Briseño / Roberto Santibañez
  • Epilogue: Rolando Briseño: an artist's life.