In Mexico and Central America, a pot of traditionally cooked beans has a particular aroma and flavor, often missing from Tex-Mex renditions of this dish. This distinct aroma and flavor comes from ...

Anyone who uses beans as a significant part of their diet should know about epazote. I first learned of the remarkable gas-relieving effects of epazote in 1975 while studying Mexican and Central ...

IT’S A DRIZZLY Sunday night in the Georgetown neighborhood. Jared Velazquez Ayala, dressed all in black, hands me the brown paper bag. I stick my nose in. Pungent. Unmistakable. The herb — sometimes ...

l was working in my herb garden last weekend when my neighbor, pulling weeds on his side of the fence, retched. I was hacking away at Chenopodium ambrosioidesy epazote, an herb used in Mexican cooking ...

During a recent food workshop, a friend of mine gave me a taste of a wonderful herb called epazote. He said, “I don’t know much about this, but maybe you could write an article about it. I want to ...

Herbs are a fantastic way to introduce familiar flavors into a meal. Unfortunately, some of the herbs that set Latino cooking apart can be hard to find in grocery stores, especially when fresh. Even ...

It adds flavour to everything from quesadillas to mole – and for one Mexican chef, the smell is like a portal to the ancient past. From a grandmother’s remedy for the flu to a taste of Mexican history ...