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The holiday season is a big deal across the Latino world. For a lot of people, the celebration begins weeks before Christmas Day – and sometimes extends through the first week of January. The season is peppered with celebrations centered around traditional food and drink. Some of the recipes are so labor intensive that their…

Roasted chestnuts, honey-glazed ham, gingerbread, and…underground tejocote? Yes, tejocote (pronounced teh-hoe-COAT-eh) are as common as yule logs in France during the Christmas season in Mexico – in fact, they’re so indispensable to a proper Central American Christmas that there was even once a thriving tejocote smuggling operation running fruit from Mexico into the United States. See, this…

Don’t judge a root by its appearance! Scorzonera may be unsightly, but it is one of the most elegant winter vegetables. There’s a good reason it’s known in Europe as “winter asparagus”…and we believe it’s due the same fanfare as its springtime counterpart! What is Black Salsify? Scorzonera (also known as “black salsify”) originated in…

If you tune into our blog each week, the most you probably know about me is that I work at JVI. And, based on some other blog topics, I like sports (yes, I’m still crying over the Phillies). This week, I’m scraping our usual blog strategy and taking this blog to a deeper, more personal…