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By Martha Palma Cacao The cacao fruit of tropical origin, today is considered a superfood for all the benefits it brings to health; Above all, if it is consumed raw because it concentrates a greater amount of antioxidants, it is said that it is 14 times better than red wine and 21 times more than …
By Oscar Quiroz The Spaniards granted various attributes to the cocoa, such as that of aphrodisiac, palliative that helped to mitigate some pain, be a sinful drink and even help digestion created by excessive consumption of red meat, but who had the faculties to have this excellent drink? In Mexican society and other Mesoamerican peoples …
Writer, humanist and coffee grower Por Todito Centro Mario Fernández Sánchez, was born in Coatepec, Veracruz 72 years ago. He has been a coffee grower since always, he represents the seventh generation of farmers in his family. He defines himself as foolish or stubborn –his wife says with a vision of the future– because he …
Cafeteria of the aristocracy By Óscar Quiroz For the nineteenth century, coffee shops were the place to discuss ideas, poetic clubs, centers of conspiracy. Luis González Obregón tells us that “Outside the Plaza Mayor, in the most central streets and even in the most distant ones, where the spacious walls of the convents did not …
By Diana Lorena Zarco Ramírez It took 4 years to create one of the most emblematic houses in Mexico City, the Porfiriato began to prevail, while some newlyweds were given the task of creating a comfortable home, which would be from the play space of their children to the place where private teachers and governesses …
Among Silversmiths, Jesuits and Franciscans By Todito Centro At the head of the Palacio National begins one of the most memorable roads in all of Mexico, which with its little more than 700 meters in length could tell us thousands of stories, I mean Francisco I. Madero Street. Naming it in this way has been …
Building that tells about the Novohispanic life By Todito Centro The history of the Museum of Mexico City, former Palace of the Counts of Santiago de Calimaya, dates back to the year 1527, when Mr. Juan Gutiérrez Altamirano arrives in New Spain from the island of Cuba where he had been governor in 1524; he …
By Todito Centro When we walk through the Centro Historico, between the hustle and bustle, street vendors and all that folklore, that without it the city would not be the same, we lose sight of the most elementary, which gave us identity as a nation and this is the story of our streets, why there …
By Todito Centro Judas is the symbol of betrayal in the tradition of Holy Week, being made sphinxes of cardboard to be burned, characters that represent evil and betrayal. Did you know that Mexicans in the XXI have neglected the jubilation and representation of this tradition, compared to what was lived in years ago. The …
Mexico City Downtown By Todito Centro This street was born in 1861: it is located on the old cemetery of the convent of San Francisco. This is one of the youngest streets in the Center, it was born in 1861 when the convent of San Francisco was divided to be sold. The convent was evicted …