Consists of the cooking cuisines and traditions of the modern country of Mexico.
Its earliest roots lie in Mesoamerican cuisine. Its ingredients and methods begin
with the first agricultural communities such as the Olmec and Maya who
domesticated maize, created the standard process of nixtamalization, and
established their foodways. Successive waves of other Mesoamerican groups
brought with them their cooking methods. These included: the Teotihuacanos,
Toltec, Huastec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Otomi, Purépecha, Totonac, Mazatec, Mazahua,
and Nahua. With the Mexica formation of the multi-ethnic Triple Alliance
(Aztec Empire), culinary foodways became infused (Aztec cuisine).
For this reason and others, traditional Mexican cuisine was inscribed in 2010
on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
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