Did you know? Diamonds from tequila.
..."there's gold in them there hills, and diamonds in that there tequila"...
I know! You think I'm several sheets to the wind from too many shots of tequila already, even before you read this month's ...
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Did You Know? Archaeologists have found fifteen-hundred-year-old kitchens
Mexican cuisine has been one of the country's most successful cultural exports over the past twenty years or so and most large towns in North America and Europe now boast at least one Mexican restauran...
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Did You Know? Vanilla Festival in Papantla, Veracruz
The Vanilla Festival is held in early summer every year in Papantla, Veracruz. The origins of the festival pre-date the Spanish conquest. Its timing is now tied to the Catholic celebration of the Feast...
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Did You Know? Some tequila is priced at $225,000
I know what you're thinking:
"Tequila prices have been rising for years, but 225,000 dollars for a bottle is ridiculous!"
"Are we talking about a regular-sized bottle, or a supersized jumbo-jet full ...
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Did You Know? Tequila dates from the sixteenth century
In 1897, Carl Lumholtz, the famous Norwegian ethnologist, who spent several years living with remote Indian tribes in Mexico, found that the Huichol Indians in eastern Nayarti distilled agave juice usi...
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Did You Know? Oldest winery in the Americas is in Parras de la Fuente, Mexico
The oldest winery in the Americas is in Parras de la Fuente
In Mexico, vineyards and wineries exist in several states, including Baja California, Sonora, Zacatecas, Querétaro, and Coahuila. Wine expe...
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Did You Know? - Mexico Gave Chocolate To The World
Shortly after arriving at Tenochtitlán in the fall of 1519, Hernán Cortés and the Spanish conquistadores were granted an audience with Moctezuma at his breakfast table. They found the Aztec r...
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Did You Know? - Tobacco / Xigar
Did you know that the word "cigar" originates from the Mayan word xigar? The word was used to describe the action of aspirating or sucking which later came to signify the act of smoking tobacco. T...
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Did You Know? - Vanilla
Did you know that the vanilla bean is from an aromatic orchid that originally came from Mexico?
The Academy of Sciences and Gastronomic Arts in Paris were so taken with the fruit of this orchid, that ...
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Did You Know? - Peanuts
Did you know that the first people known to have used the peanut were the Mayans of Mexico?
International explorers first recorded the peanut in Haiti, but were told it had originally been taken from ...
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Did You Know? - Pineapples & Papaya
Did you know that peanuts, vanilla, guavas, tomatoes, some forty different chiles, avocados, and papayas originally came from Mexico?
Pineapple also grew wild in Mexico, as well as Peru and along the ...
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Did You Know? - Chewing Gum
Did you know that among the many things Mexico has given to the world, chewing gum is one of them?
El Tzictlil, a Nahuatl word for resin from the Zapote Blanco tree, caught the attention of three Amer...
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