When we first started planning this trip Jan expressed a desire to cook with someone and the one person I knew would do it and do it well–Anthropologist Raquel Torres Cerdán agreed. So after we finished lunch at the... (Continue reading)
This picture features two ingredients usually associated with Afro-Mexican cooking: Peanuts in the Salsa Macha and plantain here sliced paper-thin and fried into chips called mariquitas. It’s hard to believe that I have only been back to Veracruz... (Continue reading)