Independence Day, September 15, Mexico
“We wouldn’t be Mexicans,” says journalist and writer Alma Guillermoprieto, “if we didn’t celebrate each feast day with its own special food. On the 15th, the day on which the rebel priest Miguel Hidalgo called for insurrection against the Spaniards, we make chiles en nogada (fresh walnut sauce), a dish in the red, white, and green colors of our national flag and truly one of the glories of the Mexican kitchen—so absolutely delicious that one helping is never enough. It is, by the way, important that the walnuts be fresh-harvested, still slightly green-tasting (they come into season around August here). They’re a bitch to peel, but they can taste bitter if you don’t.”
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