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Mexican cuisine [7] is a complex and ancient cuisine, with techniques and skills developed over thousands of years of history. [8] It is created mostly with ingredients native to Mexico, as well as those brought over by the Spanish conquistadors , with some new influences since then.
Representation of a Mexican kitchen; in front are Mexican food and spices, while in the background there are typical utensils. Pozole is a traditional soup or stew from Mexico. The Spanish invasion of the Aztec Empire occurred in the 16th century.
Mexican-American cuisine is the cuisine of Mexican Americans and their descendants, who have modified Mexican cuisine under the influence of American culture and immigration patterns of Mexicans to the United States. What many recognize as Mexican cuisine is the product of a storied fusion of
Mexican historian Leovigildo Islas Escárcega stated in 1945 that birria was a term specifically from Jalisco and some areas of the interior for barbacoa. [14] Mexican chef and professor Josefina Velázquez de León stated in 1946 that barbacoa has many variations or styles depending on the region of Mexico, and that birria was one style. [15]
An often repeated piece of folk history is the story of a man named Juan Méndez who sold tacos at a street stand in the Bella Vista neighborhood of Ciudad Juárez during the Mexican Revolution period (1910–1921), while using a donkey as a transport for himself and his food. [16]
The fast food restaurant chain Taco Bell offers a wheat flour gordita that has limited similarity to gorditas as served in Mexico and is more akin to a pita bread taco. [2] In eastern and central Mexico "gorditas de nata" (cream gorditas) are consumed often as a breakfast dish or snack.
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