MEXICAN FOOD

by Tanhia Karen Garcia Gomez


Mexican food is perhaps one of the richest in the world, characterized by strong flavors, beans, meat, corn and of course much chili, was selected to be humanity’s cultural heritage. The history of Mexican cuisine has two main elements, the Indian and Spanish. The towns indigenous  who lived in the territory that until today has been know as Mexico basically ate vegetables, beans, corn and peppers, without forget  ingredients such as cocoa, avocado and cactus. Today almost all Mexican food recipes include in its preparing one or more of these ingredients.


To compensate the lack of protein the Indians brought up turkeys and a kind of dogs for food use, but also ate reptiles, fish and some insects, a tradition that still is practice. 


When the Spanish arrived at Mexico add other foods that contributed richness and variety to the fool and made it in what is actually, one of the main elements of this contribution is the pig, which is taken completely because each one of its parts are used for a specific recipe, including butter, it is preparing the food. 


Columbus also arrived with the meat and some cereals like wheat and rice that resulted in the bread, fruits and spices.


Mexican food has been around the world and is very difficult to find a city where there isn’t a restaurant dedicated to cook the traditional Mexican food. The most famous dish is the taco, it has many variants, it is a tortilla made from corn or wheat, on the tortilla add different ingredients like meat, chicken, guacamole, pico de gallo, cheese  and many hot chili sauce. However, the list of dishes is endless, we find for example enchiladas, green and red mole, quesadillas, sopes, burritos, tamales, carnitas, among many others always accompanied with water fresh, beer or tequila.