appreciate it. in the new cnn original series searching for mexico actress and activist eva longoria shows us how people cultural landscape and history has shaped its diverse cuisine. i sat down with eva to talk about tonight s new episode on the weather leone and why it reminds her of home. we were in early on, which is the north northerly winds monterey and borders texas. so it was the most familiar to how i grew up. i grew up in texas, so there s a lot of deer a lot of venison. a lot of carry asada bbq beef beef beef, you know, it was most similar to texas cuisine, and they had we have the flour tortilla in the north were not big corn tortilla, where flour tortilla and my husband who s from mexico city hates it s sacrilegious. he was like that is not in the fridge to always have both. um and what i learned about the flour tortilla that it was, um, during the spanish inquisition, a lot of jews entered a different ports further north, and there was a crypto jew community that had to
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originated in mexico and the fact that the cuisine is still true to those endemic ingredients. um makes it pretty special in mexico city and the rest of mexico really honors those ingredients. you know, corn is huge, huge corn tortilla has not evolved in thousands of years. it is the same grinded the same way made the same way chocolate is from in mexico. it s endemic to mexico. vanilla is endemic to mexico, even though madagascar is the biggest producer of it. the plant comes from mexico. avocados tomatoes the italians made made the tomato famous, but it s endemic to mexico and so knowing all of this history, i think mexico city, um really celebrates all of those endemic ingredients, but modernizes it. so you see mexico city holding onto traditions but also modernizing , uh, different a different kind of cuisine. i remember being hungry when i talked to you that day, and i m starving. now, after all that, if you think you
team corn tortilla. dry not but even said that s the real deal. just because we re i m american , that i like flour tortilla, it s much better to force a force. i you know when you want people to be great because you love them on tv or in their public life, and then they disappoint. you know she s opposite. never meet your heroes, they say, because you re inevitably be disappointed, but not her. i was amazed by her and the series of watched a few full episodes. it s incredible. so much fun so heartwarming. i loved her. and i do think she should run for office just saying i m neither a jealous nor an envious person. except i love you. but time. next time the cnn original series eva longoria, searching for mexico premieres here sunday. 10 p.m. eastern next, the us launching strikes in syria after an american contractor was killed in a drone attack. the white house john kirby, standing by is going to
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