Benefits of drinking pulque
Just read an article on the benefits of drinking pulque done at the Universidad Mixteca in Oaxaca under laboratory conditions. They found that the pulque helps in digesting food and has antibacteri...
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Authentic "cafe de la olla"
ka-FAY de la Oy-yah
is also not very well known to visitors. Today the brew is made by steeping almost ground to flour coffee beans in the foot of a nylon stocking in boiling hot water. Added and dissolved to the hot water is shaved-off-a-cone of molasses-rich brown sugar* and then a stick of authentic cinnamon is added to your clay cup as the brew is poured.
The stocking is pulled inside-out, washed, then put away for next time.
pee-loan-SEE-yoh piloncillo is far richer in molasses than packaged azugar mascabado (brown sugar).
And tangenting this even further, tourists sometimes do handsprings trying to find packaged brown sugar, walking right by stacks of six-inch cones of piloncillo. Shave piloncillo with a potato shredder. I know more than a few folks who never return to packaged brown sugar (C&H used to have DARK brown sugar which wasn't bad)
EL GUSANO de AGAVE is best eaten with a raw egg and a slop of very lively chili sauce - it's said that, followed by a big bowl of steaming menudo will cure the most severe case of cruda (hangover),
ka-FAY de la Oy-yah
is also not very well known to visitors. Today the brew is made by steeping almost ground to flour coffee beans in the foot of a nylon stocking in boiling hot water. Added and dissolved to the hot water is shaved-off-a-cone of molasses-rich brown sugar* and then a stick of authentic cinnamon is added to your clay cup as the brew is poured.
The stocking is pulled inside-out, washed, then put away for next time.
pee-loan-SEE-yoh piloncillo is far richer in molasses than packaged azugar mascabado (brown sugar).
And tangenting this even further, tourists sometimes do handsprings trying to find packaged brown sugar, walking right by stacks of six-inch cones of piloncillo. Shave piloncillo with a potato shredder. I know more than a few folks who never return to packaged brown sugar (C&H used to have DARK brown sugar which wasn't bad)
EL GUSANO de AGAVE is best eaten with a raw egg and a slop of very lively chili sauce - it's said that, followed by a big bowl of steaming menudo will cure the most severe case of cruda (hangover),
