Mexican cuisine Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
culinary traditions of Mexico
About Mexican cuisine
Some crops native to Mesoamerica, ubiquitous in Mexican cooking, arecorn(maíz),tomatoes(tomateorjitomate),tomatillos- something like a green tomato with an inedible husk around it,avocado(aguacate),beans(frijoles) andcocoa(cacao). Beans and corn had nearly religious significance among some of the Precolumbian cultures and there is still hardly a food item without them. The other component of the "3 sisters" of traditional pre-Colombian cooking, squash, is less common in modern Mexican cuisine but found in many traditional native dishes. Other staples, such as rice (arroz), or wheat (trigo) have origins outside the Americas but have become integrated into Central American as well as Mexican cuisine. Most of the corn used in Mexican cooking is put through a process callednixtamalizationwhere
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