Baking Up an Authentic Mexican Storm with Rosca de Reyes (King's Cake Bread)

Looking around for some authentic Mexican recipes for a few Christmas gatherings I'm having, I found a great recipe for Rosca de Reyes (King's Cake) to serve after the new year, on January 6th, actually.  It's a delicious bread eaten on that date to coincide with the "Epiphany", the date said to have been when the three wise men came bearing gifts for young baby Jesus.  Regardless of what you believe, this bread is delicious and I found a great recipe for it you can try out yourself on this site:  Kings' Cake recipe

Provecho, authentic Mexican foodies!

Last Minute Christmas Gifts for Mexican Food Lovers

Have a Mexican foodie on your Christmas shopping list like me?  Check out some of the gifts you can pick up last minute for the Authentic Mexican Recipes lovers in your life, here::  http://mexicanfood.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/topgifts.htm

The Origins of Authentic Mexican Recipes

Every country has its own food, and that food usually comes together from a number of different places.  I liked this little article that talks a bit about the origins of authentic Mexican recipes:

 

Every cuisine has a foundation of ingredients. In Mexico, it was squash, corn, and beans. Each region then added their specialties to this foundation. In the Yucatan Peninsula, seafood was the primary addition along with fruit-based sauces. In northern Mexico, the meat was almost always grilled over an open charcoal fire. Oaxaca is thought to be the place corn was first domesticated. Even today, there are many varieties of corn grown in this area that can be found nowhere else. Chiles are another staple in this area. They make seven different varieties of mole sauce in Oaxaca.

 

Why Is Traditional Mexican Food So Fascinating?

Traditional Mexican Cuisine Recognized By UNESCO

Authentic Mexican recipes, the entire cuisine in fact, was added to UNESCO's list of "intangible cultural heritage" last month!  

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization just added 46 new items to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Things, they said, that are cultural treasures worth preserving. Among them was Spanish flamenco, traditional gastronomic meal of the French and traditional Mexican cuisine.

Traditional Mexican cuisine added to UNESCO

This is a big time indeed for the Mexican food world!