Cynthia D. Bertelsen's Blog, page 18
August 18, 2020
The Shadow of France Hovers Over Mexican Cooking
When you bite into a chicken taco or scoop up guacamole, you probably won’t be thinking about France. Yet, France left indelible fingerprints on the cuisine of Mexico. Jeffrey Pilcher, in Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity (Dialogos) (1998), attempted to examine the question, but much remains to be done. … Continue reading "The Shadow of France Hovers Over Mexican Cooking"
