Article: The food and folklore of a Mexican state. (Oaxacan cookery)

From the border of Mexico, northward to the Arctic Circle 'Let's go and have a fajita' is now almost as common among teenagers as 'let's go for a hamburger'. The words of a traveller who wrote, 'Mexican food excites the passion, seduces the body, then sends one into ecstasy' are now becoming a reality in North America. The cuisine of Montezuma's land is spreading like wildfire in both Canada and the USA and it is now found throughout England.

During the past two decades, I have made numerous trips to most of the well-known vacation spots in Mexico, but this time it was different. I had come to Oaxaca - a state where tourism was in its infancy. Here, I was told, 'the ...

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