Always present at the feast is mole poblano, considered to be the national dish of Mexico. Although we only tackled the parade crowd a couple of times in our years of living in Puebla, we did attend local and neighborhood parties which, like many fiestas all over the country, featured ...
Corn tortillas were famous among the native American people of Mexico — the Aztecs. These people prepared the dish by stuffing the tortillas with pumpkin and squash and baking them in clay ovens. There are several variations of quesadillas that have been adapted to many different styles. It is...
While smaller nations, like Spain and Mexico, have a nationally common cuisine, some countries, like Italy or India, are so vast and diverse in their culinary cultures, that picking just one national dish seems difficult. Some others, like England or United States of America, are an amalgamati...
Mole poblano has been called Mexico's national dish, and it has been used to support diverse views of the national identity. This introduction summarizes four articles examining mole from the perspective of history, art history, and transnational ethnography. The theme of gendered and racialized ...
National Burrito Day on the first Thursday in April celebrates the tasty and versatile Mexican dish wrapped in a tortilla. #NationalBurritoDay A burrito is a heavy tortilla wrapped around meat, cheese, tomato, rice, beans, vegetables, and sauces. Like many other tortilla dishes, the burrito ...
Another tale is also set in Tucson but, this time, the burrito is accidentally dropped into oil at a restaurant called Macayo’s by the founder, Woody Johnson. Still another story is that Chinese immigrants, who settled in Sonora, Mexico, created them in the early 1900s as they were simil...
The acclaimed international food writer and award-winning author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking explores the history and future of six of the world's most fascinating and iconic food cultures--France, Italy, Japan, Spain, Mexico, and Turkey We all have an idea in our heads about wha...
While chili is more commonly associated with Mexican cuisine, chili was not invented in Mexico, but it is also rooted in the Spanish and Native American cuisines. The first written record of a dish similar to modern Chili dates back to 1529 when a friar described stews seasoned with chilies ...
In Veracruz and Tabasco, Mexico, ropa vieja is made with shredded beef, mint, garlic, tomato, and onions, and cooked with eggs. This dish seems to date back to the Middle Ages, and is a loose adaptation of a Sephardic Jewish dish that to this day is still popular in southern and cent...
Taco is a traditional Mexican dish made using corn or wheat tortilla then folded around some filling. Tacos date back during the arrival of Europeans in Mexico. Anthropological evidence showed that tacos were created as early as the 16th century by the inhabitants of Mexico. Bernardino de ...