Bagels with guacamole: Jewish food in Mexico City
By contrast with the US where migrants are central to food history, it’s easy to get the impression that Mexican cuisine is simply a fusion of indigenous cuisines with colonial Spanish cuisine. That’s absolutely not so. And one of my hobbies is re-working the history of Mexican cuisine as one more cuisine of migrants.
So I was delighted that Inside Mexico, an English language paper in Mexico City that is more adventurous than most expatriate papers, had this article on Jewish communities with lots of asides on Jewish food.
Of course it says more about how Jews (that is those who came in the twentieth century) adapted to Mexican cuisine than about how they have changed it. But it’s another little piece of the puzzle.
Interesting article, really well-written. I especially appreciated the writer’s POV.