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...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...Mexican Indigenous Cooking from Veracruz with Raquel Torres Cerdán
When we first started planning this trip Jan expressed a desire to cook with someone and the one person I knew would do it and do it well–Anthropologist Raquel Torres Cerdán agreed. So after we finished lunch at the Villa Rica, in Mocambo Beach, we...Beans Fried in Butter
Beans Fried in Butter One thing I’ve learned when eating in Veracruz is to expect the unexpected. I never know when I’ll come across some charming original touch that transforms the familiar.It happened to me at La Viuda Restaurant in Alvarado when our order arrived...
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.