“Walk into a Mexican market in late October and you’ll see them piled high: squat, heavy pumpkins with mottled green skin, chilacayotes with their pale stripes, the burnished orange of Castilla squashes. They sit there quietly, a reminder that before they became Halloween props or the raw material of lattes, these plants were civilization itself.”
María Meléndez, Writer
What do you do with a plant that does (almost) everything? Cultivate it as a cornerstone of civilization, of course!
Don’t be fooled by the name, Querétaro’s chocolate treat is a delight for the tastebuds.
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Part museum, part fine dining, part window into Mexico’s Porfirian past, there’s no place quite like the capita’s Filomeno for those looking to elevate their mealtimes.
