Tag: Cinco de Mayo
HOLY GUACAMOLE
We invited our neighbors over for a casual Friday night dinner, and I decided to make Mexican since Cinco de Mayo was only a few days away. While many people believe Cinco de Mayo is Mexico’s Independence Day, this is not actually true. The real Mexican Independence Day (dia de independencia), representing Mexico’s Independence from …
CINCO DE MAYO . . . o seis, siete, ocho, o nueve???
Cinco de Mayo is a big deal in Chicago where we have one of the largest Mexican populations in the US. This may seem surprising given Chicago’s location in the center of the country and over a thousand miles from the border. So, why is there such a large Mexican population here? The reason is …