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Article: Flavors of Mexico Chef and author shares the magic of region's famous food
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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Ricardo Munoz Zurita is ready for the Saturday morning ritual of
Mexico's most famous port city.
He's dressed in a light cotton shirt ideally suited to the
mid-morning heat of the tropical sun. On his forearm hangs a red net
shopping bag that soon will brim with his hometown's bounty -- lively
green limes, smoky chiles and, most important, fresh fish.
Twenty American food enthusiasts on a tour sponsored by the
Culinary Institute of America jostle in a line behind him. Munoz
Zurita leads them up the concrete steps of one of Veracruz's oldest
fish markets to a line of empty stalls.
When he was a boy, Munoz Zurita says, all these stalls were
occupied by fishermen who brought in their catch each ...