Since the first map of Guatemalan coffees were introduced to the world in the mid-1990s during the annual SCAA conventions, the map has expanded from the five traditional coffee regions of Antigua, Highland Huehuetenango, Lake Atitlan, Rainforest Coban and Fraijanes, to adding Volcanic San Marcos, Acatenango and New Oriente in the last few years.
Cotija cheese is a Mexican cheese that somewhat hard and crumbly and is commonly used in a number of Latin American recipes. It takes its name from the town of Cotija in the Mexican state of MichoacÃ¡n, where scholars believe the cheese originated. It is still made on small farms in MichoacÃ¡n and throughout Mexico, but its popularity abroad, particularly in the United States and Europe, has also led to broader commercialization.
ParÃ­cutin is a cinder cone volcano located in the Mexican state of MichoacÃ¡n, near the city of Uruapan and about 322 kilometres west of Mexico City. The volcano surged suddenly from the cornfield of local farmer Dionisio Pulido in 1943, attracting both popular and scientific attention. ParicutÃ­n presented the first occasion for modern science to document the full life cycle of an eruption of this type. During the volcano's nine years of activity, scientists sketched and mapped it and took ...