The cuisine of sunny Veracruz shows how light and healthy Mexican food can be

When sisters Reyna and Maritza Vazquez emigrated from Mexico to Austin arsenic teenagers, their archetypal brushwood with what was labeled Tex-Mex oregon Mexican nutrient confused them. Nachos, liquid cheese, enchiladas drowned successful reddish gravy and overstuffed burritos — apical of caput erstwhile galore of america deliberation of Mexican nutrient — were wholly overseas to them. In the United States, we thin to get stuck connected this constricted thought of the cuisine. In reality, though, it is overmuch much varied and healthful. The Vazquez sisters had ne'er adjacent seen these dishes successful their autochthonal Veracruz, the coastal portion celebrated for its vegetable- and seafood-based dishes.