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by frostbite @, Hamilton MT, Sunday, April 30, 2023, 22:08 (33 days ago)

We just watched Eva Longoria Searching For Mexico. She travels around the country tasting local cuisine. Shows on Sunday night on CNN. Highly recommended.

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by Zihuateco @, Monday, May 01, 2023, 10:35 (33 days ago) @ frostbite

Many of the customs and culture of Oaxaca are from the period prior to the Spanish invasion. The food portrayed on the "show" is that of the Indigenous people of that region.

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by frostbite @, Hamilton MT, Monday, May 01, 2023, 16:32 (33 days ago) @ Zihuateco

And it all looks absolutely delicious!

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by Ottawa Joe, Tuesday, May 02, 2023, 15:55 (32 days ago) @ frostbite

Oaxaca the capital had some of the best food right across the table (pun intended) we have had anywhere. The market stalls, small diners and fancy restaurants with linen. And the Casa Colonial with great music.(plug for a nice place to stay)

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by frostbite @, Hamilton MT, Tuesday, May 02, 2023, 16:40 (32 days ago) @ Ottawa Joe

Casa Colonial is definitely a great place to stay. Jane, the owner, is the first girl I met when I moved to San Francisco, back in 1962. Tempus effing fugit!

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by Padrino ⌂ @, San Diego/Rosarito, Thursday, May 04, 2023, 11:41 (30 days ago) @ Ottawa Joe

Oaxaca the capital had some of the best food right across the table (pun intended) we have had anywhere. The market stalls, small diners and fancy restaurants with linen. And the Casa Colonial with great music.(plug for a nice place to stay)

¡Me encantan chapulines! My wife won't even look at them!

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by frostbite @, Hamilton MT, Thursday, May 04, 2023, 13:12 (30 days ago) @ Padrino

When I lived in Damascus, I ate grilled sheep testicles fairly regularly. I'll pass on the fired bugs.

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by Ottawa Joe, Sunday, May 07, 2023, 08:07 (27 days ago) @ frostbite

I ate similar bugs in Vietnam, the problem I have is they only have the flavour of the spice on them so while in Oaxaca I took a pass. Full disclosure I was drinking some white lightning with some locals in a small town near Dalat at the time.

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by Yandosan, Sunday, May 07, 2023, 11:54 (27 days ago) @ Ottawa Joe

I've been to Nam and Oaxaca and when it comes down to it both insect cuisines are Choc full of amino acids and other nutrients .

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by Ottawa Joe, Sunday, May 07, 2023, 15:34 (27 days ago) @ Yandosan

No doubt they are good for people its just the Yuk factor for most. Veggie burgers took off so at the price of beef, patties could be made from grasshoppers. Too bad during that plague of locusts they had not figured that one out. Protein a plenty for all.