Recipe creator

Yvette Marquez

Creator of the "Muy Bueno" recipe website and cookbook series, documenting three generations of family recipes from the Texas-Mexico borderlands, including the marinated, grilled meats at the heart of fajita cooking.

Focus:
Family-rooted Tex-Mex and New Mexican home cooking
Region:
Texas-New Mexico borderlands
Yvette Marquez

Three generations of borderland cooking

Yvette Marquez founded "Muy Bueno" to preserve and share recipes passed down through her family across the Texas-Mexico border region. The project grew from a blog into a cookbook series, positioning it as a family-history record as much as a recipe archive.

Direct ties to fajita and Tex-Mex tradition

Marquez's recipes draw heavily on the borderlands foodways that also produced fajitas — marinated beef, chile-forward seasoning, and grilling technique passed down informally within families rather than published in early cookbooks. Her work is a widely cited example of home cooks documenting Tex-Mex and border cuisine on their own terms.

Follow their work

  • Muy Bueno (recipe website)
  • Muy Bueno: Three Generations of Authentic Mexican Flavor (cookbook)

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Sources & further reading

  1. Official websiteMuy Bueno
  2. Muy Bueno: Three Generations of Authentic Mexican FlavorCedar Fort Publishing