La vida de México en Melbourne Australia.

Question

Sounds like a pretty yummy meal not to be missed. - katydew, Jun 27, 2014

Answer 1

Buen provecho, Ray

Bon appetit!

Traditional mexican food is incredibly rich and full ot taste. It is the mix of several cultures: Spanish and ancient original peoples of America, of course, but also the african, chinese and caribbean traditions form part of its roots. Mexico is a vast country with thousands of kilometers of coast in the Atlantic Ocean, the Cortez Sea and in the Gulf of México and the Caribe, therefore it has a great variety of fishes and seafood. It includes also lots of vegetables and of course the base of our kitchen is the corn, who was developed by the ancient cultures of Mezoamerica. Other key ingredients are naturally a huge amount of different species of chiles, with different grades of hot. The oriental species came to Mexico from the far west, from India and China, during the colony via the Philippines, once depending from the Vicekingdom of New Spain: pepper, cinamon, cleft...

Ancient mexicans gave to the world ingredients such as the vanilla, tomato or cacao worldwide used nowadays. During La Colonia, Spaniards brought all kinds of meats, such as pork or beef, olive oil, sugar cane, that were mixed with local varieties of birds and fruits from distant tropical countries: mangoes, strawberrys, oranges, lemons.... During the three centuries of the New Spain each region in Mexico developed its particular kitchen, from the coast to the desert, from the highlands of the Sierra Madre mountains to the valleys.

Years ago, the UNESCO included the traditional Mexican food in the list of intangible cultural heritage. Though the kitchen stayed without changes during 20th century, luckily it has recently begun to change, as the country struggles to modernize itslef and opens to the world economy. Today, the Mexican food is having a great moment specially in great cities such as Monterrey, Guadalajara or Mexico City, where new educated chefs and majoras are renewing the old traditional cuisine, creating new dishes based on the old traditional ones.

Dried chile peppers at the old La Merced market, in Mexico City.

Answer 2

From: Los Amates Mexican Kitchen [mailto:info=[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Los Amates Mexican Kitchen Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2014 8:14 PM To: Mexvic Organization Subject: Special Event for our 10th anniversary.

Los Amates Mexican Kitchen is very proud to announce a great event to start our 10th*year anniversary. We will have famous Mexican chef and celebrity Yuri de Gortari and historian Edmundo Escamilla Solis, to cook for us as a guest chef at Los Amates next Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd of July 2014. Yuri and Edmundo are the founders of the Mexican School of Gastronomy Art, Culture and History in Mexico City.**

Book your table for this one of event on 9417-0441 tables of 2-4 and 6-10 ppl available.

For more information about this event please follow us on Facebook or give us a call.

There are not many Spanish speakers in Melbourne , this is a wonderful event not to

be Missed are there any members from México able to comment on this?

Answer 3

We are lucky now to have a big enough Mexican population to promote this

kind of event , I have to try and meet them.

I tried to fix it, but couldn't. Sorry - rac1, Jun 28, 2014

Thank you rac, I had to down load it onto I foto then photobucket , and here , a circuitous route but it worked. - ray76, Jun 28, 2014