Posts Tagged ‘Raquel Torres Cerdan’

Mexican Indigenous Cooking from Veracruz with Raquel Torres Cerdán

Mexican Indigenous Cooking from Veracruz with Raquel Torres Cerdán

  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)

The African Face of Veracruz

The African Face of Veracruz

  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)