Photo I took in a great bakery in Mexico City in the historic district. Called Pasteleria Ideal, it's a chain that's been in business for 82 years! The place is big with a unbelievable assortment of baked goodies. This is the evening Crowd; Latin Americans generally eat a large meal between 2-4 pm and then a light snack in the evenings like pastries and coffee. I had delicious almond covered Danish and a chocolate filled Danish with white icing. Good eats folk!
Depending on the region, Latin American popular cuisine as much in common with African cuisine and its origins are far more complicated in a colonial world where a great deal of ethnic mixing happened. In the Americas Iberians purchased enslaved Africans as domestic servants. They performed cooking and waiting tasks of most convents, hospitals, and taverns. As a labor incentive masters gave slaves access to garden plots and allowed them to keep a percentage of the cash crops produced on an estate. This was especially important in regions where planters dedicated their fields to producing highly valued cash crops. In these plantation economies slaves provided most of the food. In addition to their one day off per week on Sunday, some used the jornal system to make money selling baked goods in urban centers. Thus some enslaved Africans in places like Mexico City literally baked their way to freedom.
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