The diffusion of food culture from a perspective that encompasses social ties, political and even emotional, is one of the most significant contributions of researchers Yuri de Gortari and Edmundo Escamilla.
Through various communication channels have launched more than a decade an important role in awareness of our culinary heritage, which not only implies knowledge and elucidate the cultural complexity inherent in our power along different periods of our life as a country, but above all recognized and accepted in all these dishes, all 
these flavors and aromas that are part of everyday life, our memories and our pictures childhood and adolescence.
are the signs of identity, personal and collective, that are searched and retrieved in the scales of the mothers and grandmothers, in the spices and seasonings of the celebrations and everyday: in the soup noodles restored the spirit after school hours, the mole de olla with special dedication to our birthdays or beans with avocado leaves that mark all an evocation of good times around the table.
"It touched us all be descendants of Morelos, Iturbide or Hidalgo, but certainly more anonymous ancestors played an important role in defining our country. That's something we understand and what we can be proud of. We achieve the same recognition through our meals.
"It is gratifying, for example, when the student turns cuisine not only the view of French chefs or cooks cutting edge, but when it is recognized primarily in the dishes of his grandmother, perhaps clumsy, presented in a very rudimentary, but above all are the expression of a family history, anecdotes, of joys and sorrows, of passages that are intertwined with our report as a nation, "said Edmundo Escamilla.
"So why not think about what we teach eat? Family traditions, anecdotes, family stories, their struggles, efforts and achievements in short the identity and pride of being. This, too, is contained in what we learned to eat Why did not teach it to our loved ones: a new generation? Our history, our elders, we ourselves are its roots. We can not deny.
"We were born and grew convinced of the value of Mexican culture. Every step we have taken in our academic, professional and as individuals, deepens and enriches the love we have for our history, our culture. "
Both in their now famous lectures at the Castle Chapultepec, and in its interventions in the Time weekly Nacional, Yuri and Edmundo have prompted us to taste, to savor them without restraint, the morsels of our national history. Is walking in aisles and between fires in the history of the people and characters, also offers the opportunity to understand a little more as a country, such as culture, as a people. We put the freshly made tortillas and dishes of clay suitable provision for the issue with hunger and taste of Mexican identity
still hopes to point the dish. To make matters worse, the good and the best, that wonderful relationship between our history through the details of our food has already become an export product. The talks, tastings and Edmundo Yuri product is already a year has his international season in Asia and Europe.
Rapporteurs of the culinary world by nature, strong critics of media language that seeks only to show off and the invention of cooks and communications specialists to "reinvent" the tradition, the Day of the Dead or Candlemas, as if history would "reinvent", Yuri and Edmundo have opened a new chapter in its outreach work from joining social networks.
have no taste to enjoy them on Facebook, but its presence on twitter and gives us enough material to enjoy your knowledge and learn a little more of the subtleties, secrets, gossip and timing of this alternate history, the senses, which borders the passages of the official history of Mexico and the world.
I invite you to enjoy this new approach to these great researchers and historians via twitter. Can follow them at @ yuriyedmundo. To show what they can find, I leave this passage, obviously edited for easier reading in this way.
* There are two moments in the history of humanity in the human diet is transformed and enriched. The ancient Roman empire, with their conquests, fish has a sea to another, from Persia arrives variety of products, including chicken and prunes. It also strengthens the spice route, which declined in the Middle Ages. For spices the Romans formed an essential part of their food, but also used to flavor their palaces with them.
* A curious fact is that Nero after killing his wife Poppaea kicks sent his palace flavored with cinnamon.
* Another moment in the history of mankind that transforms and enriches the world cuisine is the discovery of America. According to stories, Hernán Cortés to Charles V sent a sample of the products of land Americans, among whom was the beans.
* The Emperor Charles V sent to Pope Clement VII of these beans, which gave to Pietro Valeriano, Italian scientist, some seeds. Pietro Valeriano, who was at home when planted in Lamon, popular culture.
* happened in Lamon, population of the region of Veneto. Hence the name has taken one of the most popular beans grown in Italy: Lamon beans.
* In the Roman Empire already consumed a type of bean, only one type of bean, which reached from Africa, then we found a vacuum. There was even a utensil used formerly peculiar in Rome for slow cooking beans.
not subsequently found evidence of this grain is consumed, until they reached American products.
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