"The Galloping Gourmand" > wrote in message
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> Wayne often speaks of talking while eating and how a Mexican meal is a
> feast of friendliness that satisfies both mind and stomach at the same
> time...
>
> I have recently learned that tacos are the munchy equivalent of the
> oral history of Mexico...
>
> The Mexican historian Jose N. Iturriaga equated antojitos with the
> traditional sayings and aphorisms
> that give structure to Mexican grammar in his book "La Cultura del
> Antojito."
>
> "El antojito es a la estructura gastronomica lo que son los dichos y
> refranes a la estructura gramatical entre los mexicanos."
>
> http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2002/03/01/peruno.html
>
> In this Spanish language article, another author who shares the
> Iturriaga surname calls for UNESCO protection for the unique and
> intangible human heritage that is Mexican cooking.
>
> It seems that authentic antojitos, traditional Mexican cooking, and
> ethnic neighborhoods and the whole Mexican way of life are threatened
> by Mexican-style junk food.
>
> If you can't trust what a taco tells you, what can you believe in?
>
Things are really changing. I'm probably guilty of loving the past too much.

Just last Sunday, visiting with mother-in-law and hubby... tried to talk
politics as we did on the fabulous rooftop garden of our multi-millionaire
family friend (now gone to his paradise along with wife and daughter)... and
we quickly cut it short because it took on the color of today's ABC, CBS,
NBC, CNN acrimony.

It used to be... we would share convictions and how a particular politician
represented that particular conviction.

God! How I miss them!

Ronald was the last.

There is not a single politician that I can think of that has a history of
standing by their moral and convictions that an electorate can hang their
hat on.

So... my frequent assertions that Mexican food is enjoyed most with chatter
and discussions and arguments, and sips of Tequila... may be a thing of the
past.

And maybe that is why I try so hard to bring that culture back through my
continuous bombardment to anybody who cares to listen.... food, conversation
equals happiness.