Mexico City: Discover Mexican Produce that Impact the World – Greater Mexico City, Mexico

EXPERIENCE

At a great local market, you will discover and taste how Mexican foods like chocolate, tomato, avocado, corn, and many others, made their way to peoples’ tables and supermarkets in all continents and will explore healthy exotic and local staples like nopal cacti, jicama, and guava while learning their properties. At the crossroads of town, turkey, peanuts, pumpkins, beans, and vanilla will be seen in their context before they left Mexico to conquer other palates.

We will focus on foods native to Mexico and the region and how influential they are for nutrition like amaranth and nopal. We will see poultry, fruits, flowers, insects, vegetables and cereals, and learn how they have been, both ancestrally and modernly, prepared.

The difference between drinks and distillates from the Agave family will be shown for your better enjoyment of Tequila, Mezcal, Pulque and more. You will meet chilis, learn their differences and how they have adapted to the American (Chili), Hungarian (Paprika), Philippine (Siling Labuyo), Spanish (Pimentón) and more cuisines.

HIGHLIGHTS

Discover the profound impact Mexican ingredients have had on global cuisine.
Sample dishes that showcase Mexican ingredients.
Learn the journey of ingredients from ancient civilizations to a global spread.

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