Chipotle or Morita Chile Paste (Pasta de chile seco)
Don’t let the sweet, seductive, smoky smell of salsa de chile seco, a powerful hotter-than-hell condiment that appears on many Veracruzan tables in different versions. Veracruzan chipotles sing with flavor not always matched by the kind available in this...Food crafts of Xico, Veracruz, Pueblo Magico
My first taste of Xico was a crispy buñuelo, a fried “flour tortilla” very lightly dusted with fine granulated sugar and topped with chicken that had first been cooked with blackberry liqueur and then sauteed with garlic and onion and mixed with...Peruvian Dried Potato Stew
Peruvian Dried Potato Stew Want to try something with completely different textures and flavor combinations? It’ll either blow your mind or not.For our Peruvian dinner last night we cooked with recipes from the Saveur Peruvian Cooking section except for this...Breakfast in Xico, Veracruz, Mexico
Jan, the catrina veracruzana, me and Manolo One of the things that I learned on this trip is that Veracruzans, as in other parts of Mexico, breakfast is still the most popular meal to eat out. At 8:00 AM El Gran Cafe de la Parroquia in the Port has a line to get in...
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.