/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>way too fatty for a warm climate
This is the stupidest thing I ever read. Where are your brains, crammed up my ass?

>>16283382
Have you seen the amount of vegetable oils they use here?

>>16283389
What a retard

mexican here, first off we don’t use banana leaf to wrap tamales and secondly what do you consider real mexican food then? Taco Bell?

>>16283374
>t. Has never had fucking tacos al pastor

>>16283374
What? Corn is mostly used in the street food kind of stuff and tortillas, people cook differently at home.

>>16283374
Ceviche is based on a hot day. Also what tamales are wrapped in that leaf?

>>16283842
>>16284288
I mean I'm currently in the Veracruz region and all the tamales I've tried have been wrapped in that banana leaf. I haven't 'really' enjoyed a single one of them. I'm someone who's pretty well travelled but the only redeeming qualities I've discovered to this cuisine are horchata and the seafood I've found around here.

>>16283857
Hes atheist

mexicans must really fuckin like beans rice and cheese cus every meal they have is just a repackaging of those ingredients

>>16284760
well yeah that would make sense cause you're further down south. banana wrapped tamales come from el salvador and guatemala

>>16283374
Try mole lmao

>>16283842
>first off we don’t use banana leaf to wrap tamales
chicanonigger detected
they use banana leaves in yucatan

>>16283842
Pendejo we do use banana leaves for tamales, from Veracruz all the way down to Yucatán. What part of "México" are you from, or are you a shitcANO ?

>>16283842
>CHI born in Idaho
"mexican here"
fuck off, but before that post pictures of your sister

>>16284760
with actual mexican food you really have to embrace the regional things, and the good things. there's a lot of mexican food that matches your description >>16283374
, but you need to learn to wade through that.

get to know people and transplants so they can introduce you to foods from other regions. I bet you there are some restaurants or market stalls that would cater to that, or ingredients you can get in stores.

veracruz is known for their seafood, so stick with that.

>>16283374
What do you mean they can't respect a standalone flavour ? The old Mexican recipes respected the "humors" theory inherited by the Spaniards from the Ancient Greeks. Combined with the similar concepts from Mesoamericans. So the purpose of food is to provide a balance for the humors and the "temperature" of them being "hot" or "cold" in a digestive sense. Actually quite similar to Chinese "Five Elements" theory. Hence depending on your class and lifestyle you were going to produce food to follow these guidelines. After the Maximillian reign all the French influence came in and began changing that. However those fundamentals are still present in most of the old recipes, and are made thus according to their local ingredients. This is why Mexican resembles Oriental food more than Spanish food like Cuban does. With the Manila Galleons a lot of Oriental ingredients came as well hence the preference for cilantro and scallions. The abundant use of cloves and allspice while cumin a mediterranean ingredient relegated to Caribbean influenced areas, rice is preferred there as well and in the Western ports were the Oriental merchants came from. Not all Mexico is a warm climate, and lower class people ate fatty food because they needed the energy to work. Now they're all fat the same reason Americans are fat. I don't understand the corn being repetitive, the same could be argued about bread/wheat and rice.

>>16283374
Most of the food is quick and easy. Tacos are just seasoned meat, and sauteed veggies. Even the whitest of whites grow up with taco nights in America, myself included; hell I made tacos for dinner tonight, took fifteen minutes from prep to eating.

>>16283374
Poor people are obese because processed food in Mexico is cheap as fuck. Shit like Takis and whatever.

Pozole is good

>>16285831
this is some really interesting information here.

i'm curious, what parts of mexico are not considered "warm" climate... i'm from minnesota so i'm guessing my idea of a not "warm" climate is different from what is found in mexico

>>16284288
ahem... ceviche is peruvian

>>16283374
didn't ask

>>16283374
Honestly as an American...I will say that traditional Mexican cuisine is actually a combination of a variety of diverse regional styles within Mexico. Someone in Cancun or Veracruz is eating much differently from someone in Mexico City who is eating differently from someone in Ciudad Juarez.

The best Mexican food imo is from the coast on the gulf and then the Oaxaca region. But that's just my personal preference. The best Mexican food uses simple fresh ingredients and gets a lot out of them.

For good guacamole all you need is avocado, onion, tomato, jalapeno and cilantro and salt. That's it, so simple but so good.

Stuff like Mole sauce is kind of weird and imo you have to grow up with it to appreciate it properly. I enjoy authentic non tex-mex Mexican food but I'll admit that outside of fancy restaurants I'd much rather have the tex-mex

>>16284760
>>16285775
>>16285407
no way it's almost as if mexican states differ with cultural differences like the US! Chicago has deep dish pizza, NY has those 1 dollar slices and LA has overpriced whatever pizza

Fuck this thread

>>16285869
the highlands are very mountainous so they get down to like -15c in the winter, durango and chihuahua and stuff
of course most people don't live there tho some do

>>16285766
I have. Honestly all this stuff just tastes like slave food. Devoid of character

>>16283374
Here, real Mexican food

>>16283374
https://vocaroo.com/12wQKnEEi8bg

>>16283374
>fat

>>16283842
>t. Jonathan Rodriguez from Boulder, CO