Do these foods originate back to the Aztec or Mayan empires before Spanish conialization: tacos, burritos, enchaladas, chile con/sine (don't know the Spanish for without) carne/quesos, quesadillas, fajitas?
2007-07-14 11:25:50 · 7 answers · asked by the_post2001 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Cortez wrote in one of his letters back to Spain that the indians in the New World ate their plates. He was actually looking at tortillas and did not know it. The tortillas come from the aztecs. Now, burritos are a new denomination for a flour tortilla filled different things. The aztecs did not have wheat. All tortillas were done with corn. The enchiladas, at least the original ones are tortillas dipped in boiling oils with a type of red chile which gives them the red color. That is also old although I do not know of what period. The quesadilla is a cheese taco by name. However, in Mexico City prinicpally they call quesadillas fried tacos filled with different things. The fajitas are actually american. It is just a name that sounds mexican and beef fajitas are actually skirt steak. In Mexico we call them arracheras.
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2007-07-14 18:07:37 · answer #1 · answered by corneliovaca 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No Mexican food derives from many cultures. Remember the spanish ruled Mexico and before they got there the Native Americans(Mayan,Aztec,Quechiqua,and other tribes)had already been there. Tacos are not a Mexican food but than again it is. The Spanaird didn't bring corn to America,and Tacos are made from corn.First we have to realize that Mexico isn't even a spanish word,it derives from the olmec's who were one of the principle people of Mexico. The Olmec came from what is known as Africa, they left statues of themselves in Vera Cruz Mexico. So of course they influenced the food also.When you think of Mexican food you cannot compare it with spanish food because Mexicans are not spanish, Their Mexican or better yet Mejicanos the proper way to pronounce it.So yes except for chili con carne, quesadillas,the rest are original mexican foods. And you said that you didn't know how to say without in spanish,(sin) and you pronounce it the same as in english-sin
2007-07-15 08:14:22 · answer #2 · answered by Oseas 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Corn was ground and beans grown in the Americas thousands of years before the Spanish showed up
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Since most of these dishes are simply tortillas wrapped around things, whether a specific one was made before they arrived. I think you will find that fajitas are Tex-Mex rather than Mexican and very recent - they are not included in the Sunset Mexican Cooking book copyright 1969.
2007-07-14 11:35:36 · answer #3 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mostly Indian (Native american) and Spanish.
2007-07-14 11:31:07 · answer #4 · answered by Whynot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Economics, whatever was cheap and made you feel full. Hot sauce tends to make you feel very full.
2007-07-14 11:29:29 · answer #5 · answered by Gypsy Gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
id guess mayan
2007-07-14 11:32:07 · answer #6 · answered by king_art_thegreat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they originated in mexico. Stupid!
2007-07-14 11:27:41 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋