Chile Limon
Mexicans will eat anything with lime and chile –mangoes, potato chips, popcorn, jicama, apples, oranges, even persimmons and the famous esquites (corn kernels)–you name it. It is an addictive combination that originally consisted of squeezing a lime on...Tomatillos
Tomatillo (Physalis ixocarpa) is known in Mexico as tomate verde (green tomato), tomate de cascara (husk tomato), and miltomate, though it is not a tomato at all. In actuality it is related to the Cape gooseberry and American ground cherry. In all three of these the...
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.