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Afro-Mexican Cooking Class with Raquel Torres Cerdan- 4 recipes
All photos by Carlos Baizabal – Raquel objected to this photo because the bracelets are not hygienic. So don’t wear them when you slice malanga, and especially when you fry it. Those studs will get really hot. This... (Continue reading)
Hotel Casa Real del Cafe, Coatepec, Veracruz
This year I have traveled a lot and stayed in many hotels in Peru, California, and two states in Mexico, Queretaro and Veracruz, and know exactly what makes a great hotel, for me at least. I would put... (Continue reading)
Food crafts of Xico, Veracruz, Pueblo Magico
My first taste of Xico was a crispy buñuelo, a fried “flour tortilla” very lightly dusted with fine granulated sugar and topped with chicken that had first been cooked with blackberry liqueur and then sauteed with garlic and onion and... (Continue reading)
Breakfast in Xico, Veracruz, Mexico
Jan, the catrina veracruzana, me and Manolo One of the things that I learned on this trip is that Veracruzans, as in other parts of Mexico, breakfast is still the most popular meal to eat out. At 8:00 AM... (Continue reading)
Gastronomic Tour of Veracruz, Mexico- Day 2
The schedule for day 2 was just as packed as that of the day of our arrival and I realized that I would have to make some adjustments or either Jan or me, or both of us, were... (Continue reading)
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)
Villa Rica Seafood Restaurant in Veracruz
It was a cloudy day at Mocambo beach in El Puerto , light rain fell, mercifully relieving us of the scorching heat that usually prevails here, making our first lunch in Veracruz even more pleasant. We had an ocean-front table... (Continue reading)
Veracruz Culinary Tour Breakfast Day 0ne
” The trip started inauspiciously. Our airplane was late into the port of Veracruz, our driver/guide was not there (today we found out that he thought that we were arriving at 10:30 AM not 10:30 at night.) We had... (Continue reading)
The African Face of Veracruz
Written on 20 Oct, 2013 at 22:34 in Articles, Cooking, Ingredients, Traditions & Culture, Travel, 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)
A private culinary tour of Veracruz and Oaxaca
When I had finished writing The Food and Life of Oaxaca, I thought I’d never want to write another cookbook. Not only was I exhausted from the work of getting a complex book into print, but my heart and mind... (Continue reading)
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