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Sound Ideas and Food Dreams from Mexico City

06 Wednesday May 2015

Posted by Jeff von der Schmidt in Food, Gabriela Ortiz, LA International New Music Festival, Mexico, Southwest Chamber Music, Tambuco Percussion Ensemble

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Alex Ross, Barack Obama, Carlos Chavez, Condesa, Coyoacan, El Parnita, Los Angeles International New Music Festival, Mercado Medellin, Mercado Roma, Mexico City, Panaderia by Rosetta, REDCAT at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Rick Bayless, Roma, Tacos Hola!, Tambuco Percussion Ensemble, UNAM

Chicharron in the Mercado Medillin in Mexico City.

Chicharron in the Mercado Medellin in Mexico City.

If you are what you eat then Mexico is probably already in your system. At least UNESCO agrees, inscribing Mexican cuisine in 2010 as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It’s a long overdue recognition, but at least from here on there is no argument about the prestige of one of the great cuisines on Planet Earth.

A little comparison is in order. Were Mexico superimposed against the map of Europe, it would span from Greece to the United Kingdom, absorbing the Balkans, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, a good part of Northern Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, eventually reaching a good bottle of Scotch in the UK.

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