oh my goodness, look at this, this is the biggest piece of cheese i ve ever seen. you know, oaxaca is divided into eight different regions. it gives us the possibility to have all these ingredients. but oaxaca s most famous ingredient, cacao, actually came here via those trade routes. oh, i smell chocolate. and chocolate went on to become a cornerstone of wau hawken gastronomy. if you want your chocolate fix, the mercado is still the place to come. out i m not talking about anything as simple as a sugary snack. this is the boss, el jefe. they make a special version, boss. oaxaca s willy wonkas create bespoke chocolate mixes for their customers to use in cooking. bitter. it is. pure and raw. alex s personal blend combines cinnamon with almonds and a sprinkle of sugar. it s the perfect alchemy for one of his legendary recipes, the luxurious sauce, mole naegro. this is it. we re going to grind this into a paste? iowa. the oil from the nuts turns the d
grill. [ speaking nonenglish ] this is every guy i dated in high school. i m in down town monterey to meet the founder of the mexican society of grill masters. he s invited me to experience the ultimate nuevo leon barbecue. i ve never been to a carne asada in monterey. carne asada literally means grilled meat, but it s come to embody a much loved social ritual. this is where everything happens. today alejandro s whole family has come together. oh, i love that sound. that s my favorite sound in the world. we call it carne asada but we don t have to grill meat every time. it s about the gathering and being together. the fire unites us. this is what happens when you get united by fire. [ speaking nonenglish ] cooking over fire goes all the way back to the nomads, the first people to live in this harsh terrain, constantly moving camp in the hunt for food. but it was the spanish in the 1500s who introduced hardy breeds of cattle that thrived in nuevo leon, and for them bee
now, an award-winning chef is campaigning to cast the net wider. hola. [ speaking non-english ] this is a beautiful restaurant. eric left mexico city s world famous restaurant to return home on a one-man mission to transform the fishing industry in veracruz. so, this was caught this morning? [ speaking non-english ] and what type of fish is it? [ speaking non-english ] okay. i know it s not the prettiest thing, but eric s not one to judge by appearances. [ speaking non-english ] it s a lazy fish. [ speaking non-english ] yeah. [ speaking non-english ] why do you care so much? [ speaking non-english ] what are we going to make with the fish? oh, i love ceviche. what s the name? also known as sailor s grunt, this guy might not be an obvious choice for ceviche, but it s got eric s vote. [ speaking non-english ] look at that. it s beautiful. [ speaking non-english ] it doesn t even smell like fish. [ speaking non-english ] a little onion and jicama
baked a cake, full of natural ingredients? make your own muesli? is life too short? how much of these ultra processed foods do you eat, do you worry about the risks, how much do you know, or is convenience and cost absolutely key in this busy and expensive world? that is in a nutshell. in touch. good morning, it is the nation s phone in and here is the news from nick hatfield. good morning. prince harry is expected to give evidence at the high court this week in his long running legalfight at the high court this week in his long running legal fight over privacy. the duke of sussex was mirror group newspapers used illegal methods to gain information, they are contesting the claims. russia says it has stopped a large scale ukrainian offensive in the donetsk region of the country. moscow aims to have killed 250 ukrainian soldiers, kyiv has not commented on the claims. examples say gcse and a level papers being sold online are fake. bbc research has found students are being conne
But when you think of d. C. , you mostly think of dead white guys, am i right . Like washington, jefferson, lincoln. Well, guess what. Latinos have been here every step of the way. [upbeat latintinged music] in fact, Latinx Heroes Have fought in every war for the United States for centuries. This goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. American forces got major financial contributions from cuba, and they also got help from the spanish forces led by A Young Venezuelan commander named francisco de miranda. And then during the civil war, more than 20,000 hispanics served. Almost half of them were mexicanamerican, and that was only 13 years after the mexicanamerican war. Now wheres the monument for that . Huh . Huh . Huh . Now, today, nearly 20 of the u. S. Population is latin, and our numbers are growing. Our voting power is growing too, and about one in ten votes are being cast by latinos, and yet we still make up less than 2 of our elected officials, but the good news is, we do