1 Hurricane 3 -- 2 Bush Bride -- Convict Soup 13 -- 3 At Home in the Jungle -- Sardine Surprise 26 -- 4 Village Idiot -- Traditional Maya Rice and Beans -- Modern Maya Beans 35 -- 5 No Lips or Eyelids -- Chayote and Tomatoes -- Fried Plantains 48 -- 6 Kinship -- Gibnut Gumbo -- Green Corn Dumplings 65 -- 7 Home Brew -- Chicha 80 -- 8 Walking with the Dead -- Lucia's Cilantro Stewed Chicken 93 -- 9 Essential Nature of the Rainforest -- Kekchi Scrambled Eggs -- Lancha 107 -- 10 Everybody and Her Brother -- Flour Tortillas -- Chicken Vegetable Caldo with Samat 121 -- 11 Dick and Jane & Ilegorio y Teodora -- Comal Cookies 133 -- 12 Hexed -- Creamy Pumpkin Soup 146 -- 13 Strawberry Sunday -- Escabeche 160 -- 14 Food Feud -- Sesame Coconut Crunch 174 -- 15 "You Need a Second Husband" -- Chickpea Soup with Cilantro and Pasta 190 -- 16 Earth Is a Cornfield -- Callaloo -- Bush Greens and Garbanzos 206 -- 17 A Feast among the Fallen Gods -- Feast-Day Chile Verde 223.