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Cooking “Stone Soup”

In Chili & Soup, Recipes by Dave DeWittLeave a Comment

Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico Down here at the tip of the Baja California peninsula, I have stumbled across an pre-Hispanic chile pepper soup that uses river stones as the heat for cooking.  The Chinoteco tribe of Pueblo San Felipe Usila was a fishing based culture, and their fishermen used pear-shaped guajes, or gourd pots, told hold their fresh …

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Need Weird Mexican Food Products? MexGrocer to the Rescue!

In Gadgets & Tech, Reviews, Stories by Lois Manno1 Comment

Need some achiote to sprinkle on the nopalitos in your comal? Look no further than  MexGrocer.com. When you run across a tasty new recipe with foreign-sounding Latin ingredients, you can cook it the way it was meant to be, thanks to MexGrocer’s huge inventory of really neat products. Their tagline reads “Bringing Hard-to-find Authentic Mexican Products to Your Door.” And …