The Smithian

mexicanfoodporn:

The best way to release anger? Make a pretty fucking spicy yet delicious salsa verde. #salsa #veryspicy #vendetta #mfpkitchen #mexicanfoodporn

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Robert Rodriguez has teamed with Univision to launch the El Rey Network, which will feature action and genre programming aimed at the Latino audience.

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…53 chapters, each corresponding to a pictograph—beginning with “La Araña” (the spider) and ending with “La Rana” (the frog)…An intriguing debut and an elegiac, miniature entry in the literature of Latin American diaspora that will break your heart.

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…revolves around a middle-class Mexican family that seems pretty ordinary, except for Claudia, a young woman who rages with unchecked manic depression.

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mexicanfoodporn:

Taco de papas y cebolla en salsa y taco de bistec con salsa de chipotle #mfpkitchen #potato #steak #spicy #salsa #lime #mfpkitchen #mexicanfoodporn

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…Carlos Fuentes is the subject of a small, literary boom on the anniversary of his death. Fuentes died one year ago [and] This week his…publisher…released more than a dozen of his works as e-books for the first time, including the epic and groundbreaking 1962 novel “The Death of Artemio Cruz.”

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Makes 10 popsicles
Ingredients 5 Atalufo Mangoes, 1 diced small, the others peeled and sliced for puree ( about 2- 2½ cups mango for the puree)
Zest and Juice of one lime
¼ simple syrup
½-2/3 c water
1 tsp ancho or cayenne chili powder
Instructions

In a small bowl combine the diced mango with the chili powder and mix well. Place a heaping tablespoon of the mixture into each popsicle mold  Puree the remaining mango slices with the lime zest and juice, simple syrup and a few tablespoons of water, adding more water if necessary to bring the mixture just over 3 cups. Fill the molds with the puree and freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions.

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mexicanfoodporn:

Quesadilla + guacamole + salsa #mexicanfoodporn #quesadilla #cheese #guacamole #salsa #heaven #food #foodporn #gastronomy (at Monterrey, N.L.)

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Ríos Montt and Rodríguez Sánchez are charged with being the intellectual authors of a savage campaign against the Ixil Maya, a stubbornly independent group of perhaps a hundred thousand Indians who speak their own language and inhabit a…region of the northern highlands, where the Cuchumatan mountains descend in long green folds toward the tropical forests along the Mexican border. In the early nineteen-eighties, the Ixil started coöperatives and unions. They were aggressively resisting seizures of their land and attempting to take back land that they claimed had once belonged to them.

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mexicanfoodporn:

Um I am still hungry… So ill go with a Campechana. For those who don’t know what this is well here it goes: flour tortilla, al pastor meat, beef (bistek) and cheese. Oh yes!!!!! #tacos #monterrey #mexicanfoodporn #flour #cheese #meat #tasty #cuisine #gastronomy #salsa (at Tacos Laredo)

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