Recipe - M E N U Have A Mexican Dinner This May

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May 1: Labor Day

May 2: Dia de la Santa Cruz, when crosses are erected and decorated with
flowers. The people celebrate with fireworks and picnics, often a barbacoa,
barbecue. Although, from its name, the day of the Holy Cross, it is
ostensibly a Christian holiday, the celebration is of preColombian origin.
In the Mayan culture the cross symbolized the four corners of the earth,
and the spring holiday celebrates rebirth. Today, the holiday unofficially
honors construction workers, who were the ones to sustain the celebration
by building makeshift crosses on the rooftops of unfinished churches during
the last century.

May 5 or Cinco de Mayo: anniversary of Battle of Puebla, at which the
Mexican army defeated that of the French on May 5, 1862.

May 15: the Feast of San Isidro, patron saint of grain, livestock and
agriculture.

MENU : **Sikilp'ak with fried tortillas **Empanadas de San Cristobal de
las Casas **Seviche estilo Acapulco **Coliflor en Aguacate **Costillas de
Puerco a la Parilla **Tiras de Puerco con Cola **Rice **Flan

Notes: The Monthly Food Column is presented as a service of COOK'SBOOKS and
AMES BOOKS: column appeared each month in Behind The Times, the monthly
newspaper of Orange County, Vermont 1997.

A KitPATh bust 98Feb

Recipe by: Marguerite Ames, Food Columnist 1997May Recipe by "Pillsbury
Kitchens' Family Cookbook" 1979 edition
Posted to MCRecipe Digest by KitPATh phannema@wizard.ucr.edu on Feb 17,
1998