Some people just love mexican food, I never went crazy for it.
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Ah, the latest round of nouvelle cuisine. It's understandable - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_cuisine
"The style Gault and Millau wrote about was a reaction to the French cuisine classique placed into "orthodoxy" by Escoffier. Calling for greater simplicity and elegance in creating dishes, nouvelle cuisine is not cuisine minceur ("thin cooking"), which was created by Michel Guérard as spa food. It has been speculated that the outbreak of World War II was a significant contributor to nouvelle cuisine's creation—the short supply of animal protein during the German occupation made it a natural development.[7]"
(My emphasis)
The term nouvelle cuisine gets recycled a lot in French cuisine. Apparently they're all for revising culinary tradition. But no worries - the current use of the term apparently dates to 1969CE, & the War is over - we won. (Although France hasn't done all that well since - but the culinary privations caused by WWII should be safely over.)
The other influence on Mexican cooking is the use of American ingredients and preperation. Tex-Mex cuisine.
The use of yellow shredded cheese, meat (particularly beef and pork)..... dishes such as Texas-style chili con carne, fajitas, hardshell tacos, burritos, and nachos are all Tex-Mex inventions.
9 Authentic Mexican Dishes You Should Eat Instead Of The Tex-Mex Knockoffs
http://www.businessinsider.com/authe...#ixzz3ZHVFoSHa
But tonight its La Parrilla Suiza, Mexico City Cuisine in Phoenix.
http://www.laparrillasuiza.com/
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Peter1469 (05-05-2015)
My beliefs are a distillation of what I was taught as a child and what I observe as an adult.
American ingredients - Yah, well, the Spanish (& Portuguese & French, likely) brought horses, oxen, pigs, sheep, war/hunting dogs, cattle, goats to the Americas, TMK. The horses, pigs, dogs were captured or ran free - & thus were plentiful by the time TX got going. The amount of protein in meals is a tough one - horses & cattle take lots of feed & water, sheep take lots of care. The others can fend for themselves pretty well. I get the impression that the Native Peoples - especially inland, away from lakes, rivers - didn't have as much protein as their relatives living near large bodies of water (except the buffalo hunters). The NP were fairly healthy - & comparatively large - cf. contemporary Spanish & French armor - Europeans tended to be smaller in stature than NP. Corn, potatoes, chocolate & various tubers & tropical fruits were already here, of course. Tex-Mex - doesn't get any respect from Mexican cuisine - not sure if it's the Not invented here theory, or cross-contamination from US illegal immigration to TX (part of New Spain & then Mexico @ the time). Yah, those prejudices die hard. In any event, you can likely still start bar fights along the US/Mexico border by discussing the topic openly. But the photo looks absolutely delicious. Prosit!
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Tks! But I grew up around here, & have been enjoying the food ever since I can remember.
I do remember some bits & pieces from class - the Columbian Exchange. It's interesting to see where basic foods came from. But I'm glad to contribute to the discussion, when I can find something helpful to say.
nic34 (05-05-2015)
Today was the expat men's breakfast, so I had to postpone my trip to my FAVORITE taco/torta joint in the whole wide world, Wayan'e.
I will be there tomorrow morning at 10am. I am such a regular, when Enrique, the head cook sees me coming, he makes my castican con queso torta and he hands it to me as I approach! You can actually see him making those very tortas in this video!
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Crepitus (05-05-2015)
Cinco De Mayo is a huge problem in Ca. If there are Mexican kids at school, the school allows them to use the Mexican flag at school to celebrate.
but the kids are not allowed to use the American flag.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/06...gs-cinco-mayo/
Administrators at a California high school sent five students home on Wednesday after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts and bandannas -- garments the school officials deemed "incendiary" on Cinco de Mayo.
The five teens were sitting at a table outside Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., on Wednesday morning when Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez asked two of them to remove their American flag bandannas, one of their parents told FoxNews.com. The boys complied, but were asked to accompany Rodriguez to the principal's office.
The five students -- Daniel Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matt Dariano, Dominic Maciel and Clayton Howard -- were then told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home, though it would not be considered a suspension. Rodriguez told the students he did not want any fights to break out between Mexican-American students celebrating their heritage and those wearing American flags.
Dariano's mother, Diana, told FoxNews.com she and parents of the other four students are now demanding an apology from officials and are considering a lawsuit.