Potato Fritters (Bocaditos de Papa)
Potato Fritters (Bocaditos de Papa) Not exactly latkes but they are fried and fantastic. Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate it! Bocadito or bocadillo means a tidbit, literally a “little mouthful.” These delicious examples were showing up all over the Isthmian city...
Crimped Corn Tartlets (Picadas)
“Picada,” literally “pinked” or “pricked,” refers to the way you’re supposed to crimp up the edges of a small tortilla so as to form a shallow tartlet shell for spreading with a few simple toppings and serving as either a breakfast or supper snack. You may have...
Mexican Wedding Cookies (Polvorones de nuez)
Mexican Wedding Cookies (Polvorones de nuez) These Polvorones de nuez (Mexican wedding cookies, or walnut cookies for Christmas) come from a classmate, Yolanda Serrano, at the Instituto Familiar Y Social in Guadalajara. There they would never wrap them up so garishly,...
The many lives of Zarela Martínez
Culinary legend Zarela Martínez introduced finely tuned, highly researched regional Mexican cuisine to a national stage, and has continued to blaze trails for more than three decades.