Reddit reviews The Essential Cuisines of Mexico: Revised and updated throughout, with more than 30 new recipes.
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The Essential Cuisines of Mexico by Diana Kennedy is the best book that I've found on Mexican food. No pictures in the book at all but all of the recipes that I've made from it have been awesome.
Quesadillas? Thinking filled with refried beans, not just cheese.
Those, or empanadas; I actually just got The Essential Cuisines of Mexico and there's a chicken empanada recipe that looks pretty simple and tasty, the only thing that really takes time is making the dough.
Would you have time to throw together a sandwich? Tons of easy variations and pretty damn cheap as well.
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This being said, generally speaking taco's and nacho's are both made from Masa flatbread which are called tortillas. Burritos and quesadillas are going to be made from a wheat flour based flat bread.
Though you will find Taco's south of the border, it looks like the cuisine you are actually interested in would be Tex-Mex or Southwestern US cuisine. Nacho's, Quesadillas, and Burrito culture is largely Americanized even though some of them still have roots in Northern mexico.
Additionally, Mexican cuisine is both diverse and very regional. The essential cuisines of Mexico is supposed to be a very good cookbook if English is your first language. It is by Diana Kennedy. I would not expect that it is really going to show you the kind of cuisine you are actually looking for though. Oaxaca Al Gusto was also highly recommended by Kenji of serious eats as well.
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Cuisines-Mexico-throughout-recipes/dp/0609603558/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Rick Bayless is another go to. Mexican Every day is another very highly rated cookbook for mexican cuisine.
https://www.amazon.com/Mexican-Everyday-Recipes-Featured-Season/dp/039306154X/?tag=serieats-20
I believe something like this though will be closer to what you are actually wanting.
https://www.amazon.com/Tex-Mex-Cookbook-History-Recipes-Photos/dp/0767914880/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299551913&sr=8-1
Either Diana Kennedy - The Essential Cuisines of Mexico or Rick Bayless - Authentic Mexican. Really any book by either of those authors is going to be good.