Current Trends in Mexican Restaurant Cuisine

“Sooner or later change had to come,” says José Carlos Capel, in an article in El País. The tasty Mexican culinary repertoire, one of the most varied in the world,…

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Who’s the Strongest? The Meat Eaters or the Vegetarians?

The consensus of nutritionists at the end of the nineteenth century was clear. It was the meat eaters. But important minority movements (sometimes derisively called the nuts and the berries)…

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Agua Fresca 12: Horchata de Cebada (Barley)

Continuing with the complicated horchata family, let’s go on to horchata (or agua) de cebada, that is horchata of barley. Technically this is redundant because the word “horchata” comes from…

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