6 fun candy-inspired drinks to relive your inner child
Remember how excited you’d get as a kid around Christmas time, your birthday, or any time you knew there’d be candies around? Well, you can relive that excitement with a grown-up twist.
A journey through Mexican tamales
The apparently simple preparation of this dish —consisting of a portion of maize dough mixed with other ingredients such as iguana, shrimp, beans or fish, and later wrapped in a corn or banana leaf, and steamed—, required the development of instruments such as stone scrapers to remove corn kernels; pichanchas or clay pots with perforations to rinse the nixtamal; to grind the grain, metates; and to cook the dough, pots that resisted the heat, and lids.
