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Mexican Flavours
Mexico is a fascinating and mysterious country with a highly varied countryside. Mexico and its people with thousand-year-old traditions from pre-Columbian civilisations are a mixture of Amerindian and Spanish cultures. The combination of these two civilisations results in a delicious, varied and original Mexican cuisine.
Guacamole, the national sauce, is made with avocadoes, tomatoes, onions and coriander. This sauce is used to accompany several meat dishes that are eaten as tacos (the meat and the sauce are sandwiched in a folded corn flour tortilla). There are also enchiladas, tamales, quesadillas and sincronizadas.
In Mexico, there are many tropical fruits and in the markets one can drink exotic fruit juices prepared in front of the customer. Mangos, papayas, pineapples, sapodillas and figs are highly appreciated.
Drinks: the national drink is tequila, which is an extract from the agave plant. It can be white or golden coloured. Tequila is drunk straight by sipping with a slice of lemon and a little salt. If, on the other hand, it is drunk mixed, one can choose from many possibilities like margaritas or cucarachas.
Another national drink is mescal, an alcoholic Mexican drink made from the agave. There are several kinds of agave and each one produces a slightly different mescal. Tequila is a mescal from the sap of the blue agave in the Tequila region of Mexico.
