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Though perhaps not as well-known a fact as wine or beer origin, cheese too is distinctive by country.
Charles de Gaulle is reported to have once said 'How can you govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?' But whatever may have been the administrative skills of that old French soldier, he was right about one thing. There are a great many kinds of cheese in the world, a tribute to the inventiveness of cheesemakers.
Snack or cooking ingredient, there is a whole world of cheeses. Cheese makes a wonderful addition to many dishes and can also be the main ingredient.
As a condiment or as a principal ingredient, in a sandwich or a sauce, warm or room temperature, certainly cheese is essential in the kitchen.
Food and wine go well together. The right food enhances the flavors in the wine and wine is the perfect complement for food.
The assumption runs deep: Mexican food calls for beer or margaritas. Wine seems wrong somehow, too European, too delicate, too fancy for a plate of tacos or a bowl of mole.
The assumption is wrong.
Olives, with their characteristic, slightly acidic flavor, are used as appetizers, in salads, pasta sauces, pizzas, in robust meat and chicken dishes, with vegetables such as eggplant, tomatoes. Olive oil is used in cooking, salad dressings and sauces.
Tequila in some form has been made for centuries. The Aztecs as far back as the 1st century AD produced a milky brew from the local agave plant. The Spanish, who landed in Mexico in the 16th century, discovered a type being made by the local Ticuilas Indians, from whom the name derives.
