This marinated spicy salad is rather like the traditional Mexican Christmas Eve Salad and takes advantage of fall vegetables. Substitute celery for the jicama, add oranges or apples, and you have a lower-fat take on a Waldorf salad.
The Mayan Calendar is Ending–Time to Party!
Most of us have seen pictures of the Mayan calendar at some point: that round stone disc carved with a dense assortment of creepy-looking faces and strange symbols. Known as the Mayan Long Count Calendar, it is a wonderfully complex system that spans around 5,200 years and is of huge spiritual significance to the Maya people. The final cycle of …
Dining in Mexico in 1909
By William English Carson If a stranger is content to embark on a course of Mexican food and can stomach the highly seasoned dishes, filled with chilis and red peppers, he can get satisfactory meals at the Mexican restaurants, for some of the things which are served are piquant and excellent. But he must beware, for the dishes have a nomenclature …
The Hacienda That Chiles Built, c. 1815
The owner of this famous hacienda is a Creole, named Don Juan de Moncada. From the hacienda he takes the title of Marques. Previous to the revolution, he was considered among the richest of the landed proprietaries of Mexico, and in the year 1810 actually possessed in his own mansion six millions of dollars. The rent he derived from his …
Nancy’s 2011 Roundup from Yucatán
By Nancy Gerlach, SuperSite Food Editor Emeritus We are both well and still happy that we embarked on our adventure in Mexico. In spite of all the negative stories that circulate about the violence, our area remains peaceful and each year we are here, we love it all the more. The downside of our location is that the word has …