Shredded venison salad: Salpicon de venado
This dish is found on restaurant menus throughout Mexico, but particularly in the western part of the country and in the Yucatan, where it is called zic de venado. This recipe is a good buffet dish,...
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Did You Know? - Henequen - Sisal
One of the greatest gifts the Indigenous peoples of Mexico shared with the world was their discovery and cultivation of natural fibers. One of these, henequén, continues to be used throughout the...
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Living in Timucuy, Yucatan: birth, death and some in-between
The Setting
Curanderismo
The Inhabitants
The Physical and Psychological
Compadrazco
The Beginning
Love Is In the Air
"I Do"
The End of the Game
Works Cited
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Mexican yucca in orange sauce: Yuca en naranja
Yucca has always been a staple in the cooking of the Caribbean and the Yucatan peninsula. Fairly bland on its own, it takes well to the flavor of other ingredients. In Mexican yucca in orange sauce, it...
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Link to clickable interactive map of Yucatán Peninsula
Clickable interactive map of Yucatán Peninsula
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Lloyd Mexico Economic Report September 2003
Table of Contents
STOCK MARKET FINANCING BOOM
BILLION DOLLARS FOR PLAYA MUJERES
TELMEX FREEZES ITS RATES
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Exploring the Yucatan, A Traveler's Anthology
Exploring the Yucatan - A Traveler's Anthology
By Richard D. Perry.
A Review
Indispensable for anyone heading for the Mayan world of the Yucatan and equally interesting for those w...
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Bliss, paradise and no tipping
Maria Mukul washes the family laundry in her village at Pac Chen, Quintana Roo
I'm drifting away and feeling mighty fine about it, I don't mind saying. For the last hour or so my brain's been telling ...
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The Umbrella
(While traveling to the Yucatan Peninsula on vacation in 1985, the author and her husband meet an adventurous contractor who offers to sell them a beachfront lot in Playa del Carmen. After accepting hi...
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Tortillas with Shredded Fish and Black Beans: Pan de Cazón
We first tried this dish at a restaurant near the seawall in Campeche. Perhaps because pan means bread, we were expecting something like a tuna or salmon loaf, but these stacks of tortillas spread...
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Campeche: Cocktails and Seafood in a Pirates' Paradise
Picture a small tropical city nestled up against sparkling coastal waters, surrounded by fortress walls, complete with drawbridges and moats to keep out invading buccaneers. Where, in the twenty-first ...
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Campeche-Style Pompano in Green Sauce: Pampano en Salsa Verde a la Campechana
Fish and salsa verde make a great combination. Serve this with black beans and rice for a classic campechano meal.
Ingredients:
1 2-pound pompano, cleaned and scaled (snapper may also be u...
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Lloyd Mexico Economic Report March 2002
Table of Contents
UPGRADED RATINGS
STREAMLINING OFFICIAL PROCEDURES
BUSINESS REGISTRATION IN A DAY
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Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - Janaury 2002
Table of Contents
THE SHAPE OF 2002
MORE FOREIGN INVESTMENT
AIRLINE PARTNERSHIPS
QUERÉTARO AIRPORT...
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Lloyd Mexico Economic Report September 2002
Table of Contents
RETHINKING AIRPORT LOCATION
FLORIDA-YUCATAN CARR FERRY
AUTOMOTIVE FACTORY FOR THE WORLD?
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Mexicasa: The Enchanting Inns and Haciendas of Mexico by Gina Hyams and Melba Levick
Gina Hyams and Melba Levick have created a wonderful compilation of photographs of twenty-one of Mexico's most spectacular and beautiful inns and bed and breakfast establishments. This one is a real winner.
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Diving in Cancun
Unlike Cozumel with its abundance of dive shops, Cancun is home to only ten. But, as I discovered, this city has much to offer a diver looking for a unique diving experience.
Located twelve miles from...
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Merida: the white city of the Yucatan
MERIDA'S HISTORY
SIGHTS TO SEE
SHOPPING
DINING
The early inhabitants of Merida "discovered" a plant that had ...
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A mother and teenage son travel the Yucatan
In March 1998, when Andrew was 15 years old, we took our Mayan trip together. I decided to take him for that month, because his small school in Anchorage, Alaska, was going to the Galapagos Islands, an...
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Yucatecan achiote paste: Pasta de achiote
Also known as recado colorado in the Yucatan, where it originated, this Yucatecan achiote paste is a marinating paste that can be used on chicken, pork or fish. Although the base for achiote pas...
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Is Cancun plastic?
(Photographs by Faera Siegel ©2000)
When I tell my media friends that I am writing a book called "The Real Mexico", they invariably act a bit dumbfounded and frequently ask how I can possibly know an...
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Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche
"It's this heat... this heat... that scorches every cell of my body that kills me about this place," the Texan says while sipping his drink. "I'm going to be a linguistic genius with that phrase ...
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Bijou's odyssey: Bringing our sailboat to the Maya Riviera
This is a story of how my wife, Teresa, and I realized our dream of owning a sailboat here on the Caribbean side of Mexico. Being former coastal Californians with 10 years of sailing experience under o...
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