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Cactus fries are an americanized dish that uses traditional Mexican ingredients. [1] The dish is strongly associated with the cuisine of the Southwestern United States, [2] where prickly pear is commonly eaten, and particularly in Texas and New Mexico, where Tex-Mex and New Mexican cuisine has developed.
Nopalitos is a dish made with diced nopales, the naturally flat stems, called pads, of prickly pear cactus . They are sold fresh, bottled, or canned and less often dried. They have a light, slightly tart flavor, and a crisp, mucilaginous texture. [1]
Nopales are generally sold fresh in Mexico, cleaned of spines, and sliced to the customer's wishes on the spot. They can also be found canned or bottled as nopalitos, and less often dried, especially for export. Cut into slices or diced into cubes, nopales have a light, slightly tart flavor, like green beans, and a crisp, mucilaginous texture ...
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[25] [29] [30] The young stem segments, usually called pads or nopales, are also edible in most species of Opuntia. [25] [27] They are commonly used in Mexican cuisine in dishes such as huevos con nopales (eggs with nopal), or tacos de nopales. Nopales are also an important ingredient in New Mexican cuisine. [25]
Sandra Pascoe Ortiz is a Mexican researcher and chemical engineer. [1] She is a faculty member at the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac in Zapopan . Ortiz is known for developing a non-toxic, renewable, and biodegradable plastic alternative made from cactus juice.
Marion is a city in and the county seat of McDowell County, North Carolina, United States. [4] Founded in 1844, the city was named in honor of Brigadier General Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War Hero whose talent in guerrilla warfare earned him the name "Swamp Fox".
Archaeological excavations performed by Dr. David Moore during the early 1980s, revealed artifacts and other evidence that the earliest inhabitants of McDowell County lived there from the Woodland period and Mississippian culture era, from 250 to 1500 AD. Dr. Moore discovered this material in an area close to the Catawba River, in and around an unusual topographical site known as Round Hill. [4]