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| Maybe Sofia Vergara should speak for US Hispanics |
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| Crystal Quintero, the Mexican Buddhist (WQ) |
The growing Latinx (Latina and Latino combined) population, popularly referred to as Hispanic (descended from Spain) is too big to be contained in one month. So we take up two, the second half of September and the first half of October.
It might have been better to claim November with its mass celebration of el Dia de los Muertos or "the Day of the Dead," which is quickly becoming the new Cinco de Mayo, the American celebration of "Mexican Independence Day."
Of course, Independence Day actually falls not on the 5th of May (cinco de mayo) but on Sept. 16th (el Grito de Dolores, "Cry of Dolores," which being a place rather than a person called Dolores, should perhaps be rendered "Shout from Dolores," a word that literally means "pains" as in birth pangs) at the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month. What do most Americans want, fanatical popularity or technical accuracy?
If "we are what we eat," can I be Mexican by eating real Mexican food?
(Business Insider) How one chef is fighting to preserve a cooking tool as old as civilization itself | Still Standing: the hand-mill or metate ("mealing stone," quern-stone for grinding ingredients)
What if I want to eat like a real American from the Americas?
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| Look at the Native women in their native land using their own metate (quern), Palestine 1900 |
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| Plant-Based Mexican Recipes for Healing |
More than a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet restores what "traditional" Mexican food means by reaching back through centuries of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases-of-development. It was compiled by partners, California professors, and co-authors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel.
When Calvo was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, they both radically changed their diets and began seeking out recipes featuring indigenous, healthy, vegetarian Mexican foods.
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| Did Mossad bring Mexico under Jewish rule? |
This led to the promotion of a diet rich in plants indigenous to the Americas (amaranth, maize, beans, squash, greens, herbs, and seeds) and a passionate idea that Latinxs in America, specifically Mexicans, need to ditch the colonial garbage, synthetic, artificial, and toxic fast food and return to their own culture's food roots for physical health and spiritual fulfillment.
This vegan and vegetarian cookbook features over 100 colorful recipes based on Mesoamerican cuisine and also includes contributions from indigenous cultures throughout the Americas. It is a winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Cookbook. More
What's National Hispanic Heritage Month?
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| Presidenta Sheinbaum, deja me. I'll do the talking for the 65 million U.S. Hispanics, okay? |
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| First flag of the Mexican Empire of Spain |
History
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| What have Mexicans ever done? |
In 1988, the commemorative week was expanded to a month (September 15 to October 15) by legislation sponsored by Rep. Esteban Torres (D–CA), amended by Sen. Paul Simon, and signed into law by Republican Pres. Ronald Reagan [3].
September 15th was chosen as the starting point for the commemoration because it is the anniversary of the Cry of Dolores (early morning, Sept. 16, 1810), which marked the start of the Mexican War of Independence.
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| The original Mexican flag (1821) had no snake |
The 30-day period also includes many dates of importance in the Hispanic (Spain-descended) community:
- Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua celebrate their anniversary of independence on Sept. 15;
- Mexico commemorates its independence on Sept. 16;
- Chile commemorates its independence on Sept. 18;
- the celebration day of reviled Jewish terrorist and Converso Cristobal Columbus (an Anus'i or Marrano), formerly known as
Columbus Daynow Día de la Raza [7]. More
What have the Latins ever done for US?
Oaxaca: the most Native part of Mexico
- Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
