From Mexico, with lots of food for love
By Mike Peters | China Daily | Updated: 2011-10-04 07:54
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Yessica Hernandez uses a molcajete, a grinding bowl favored by Mesoamerican cultures including the Aztec and Maya for centuries, to give her foods an authentic flavor. Zhang Tao / China Daily |
My interview with the lovely lady who is the new chef at the Mexican embassy started a little oddly. Yessica Hernandez and I were closeted in the kitchen pantry, sniffing deliriously at bags of leaves. My part of the conversation, as I remember it, was "Oh, wow, man!"
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