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It is assumed that at the request of Diego Carrillo de Mendoza y Pimentel, Gelves and viceroy of New Spain, a merchant from the Philippines brought a young Hindu who should be the personal service of the Viceroy.
This girl, named Mirra, was kidnapped by Portuguese pirates and brought to Cochin in southern India. At that site, escaped his captors and took refuge in a Jesuit mission, where he was christened with the name Catarina de San Juan.
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Mirra was again abducted by pirates who had taken from his parents' house and gave her to Manila who then took her to New Spain. But having landed at the port of Acapulco, instead of giving it to Gelves the merchant sold her into slavery to the poblano Miguel Sosa for ten times the value that the viceroy had promised her.
Catarina de San Juan or Mirra, followed by dressing the way to his native India, muffled, with a sari that covered her entire body. It is assumed that this dress was the one who gave birth to the chinese suit. A few years after his arrival, Miguel de Sosa died, leaving in his will the order freeing the slaves.
It was collected in a convent, where he says he began having visions of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. Catarina de San Juan died on January 5, 1688 at the age of eighty-two years.
In Puebla de los Angeles was paying veneration as a saint, until in 1691 the Holy Inquisition had to ban the popular devotions. Currently, the Temple of the Company, in Puebla, is known as The Tomb of the China Poblana, since in the sacristy lie the remains of Catarina de San Juan.
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In Aztec mythology, Popocatépetl was a brave warrior who loved the maiden Iztaccihuatl.
There are several versions of the legend. In one of these is that the girl was a princess, what the most beautiful being be sacrificed to the gods for good harvests, but the warrior loved her and would not allow the sacrifice, so must flee to avoid with it, but they fled the guards discovered them and an arrow struck the princess.
His beloved picked her up and kept running, once away, safe, laid her on the field, vowing to take care of her forever, he would wait until she awakened from sleep, to continue living their love. But it has been so long that the fields and the snow would have covered. |
Another version says that the father of Iztaccihuatl (Tezozomoc) sent him to war in Oaxaca, promising him the hand of his daughter if he returned victorious (which supposedly Iztaccíhuatl father did not believe possible).
Iztaccíhuatl received news that his beloved had died in battle and she died of grief. When Popocatepetl returned and learned of the tragic fate of his beloved, he also died of grief for having lost. The gods were moved by them and covered them with snow to turn them into mountains.
The peak was named "The white woman" or colloquially "Sleeping Woman" because its profile resembles a woman lying in bed. Popocatepetl was turned into a volcano that blows fire on the ground with blind rage at the loss of his beloved. |
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The story of the mole can be traced to the pre-Columbian era. It relates that the Aztecs prepared for the great lords a complex dish called "Mulli", which means soup or mixture. There are several versions about the origin of the mole as we know it today. |
One version places the mole poblano in the convent of Santa Clara in the city of Puebla, capital of the state of Puebla (Mexico) when a nun milled different chiles and other seasonings together in a mortar.
These nuns kept a vow of silence, so for most of the day could not talk and tells the story that the aroma of the ingredients that the nun was grinding in the kitchen were so nice that all the nuns left their activities to go see from which came the smell so delicious, seeing what was happening, the mother superior breaking the silence that was saved, said: "Sister, what good mole!", which provoked the laughter of the other sisters who corrected him by saying: "People say: how good grinds!, sister" and that is why is this dish called Mole.
Another version says that the Mole Poblano (the original recipe used about a hundred of ingredients), was created in Puebla de los Angeles in the seventeenth century by Mother Andrea de la Asunción, Dominican nun from the convent of Santa Rosa during a celebration.
It has another legend, who once Juan de Palafox, viceroy of New Spain and Archbishop of Puebla, visited his diocese, a poblano convent offered him a banquet, for which the cooks in the religious community special care. The head chef was Fray Pascual. That day was particularly nervous and began to reprimand his aides, in view of the disorder that reigned in the kitchen. The same Fray Pascual began to pile on a tray to keep all the ingredients in the pantry and in his haste was to stumble right in front of the pan where succulent turkeys were almost ready. He ended up chiles, chocolate chips and the most varied species spoiling food to be offered to the Viceroy. There was so much anguish of Fray Pascual that he began to pray with all their faith, just as he warned that the guests were seated at the table. A while later, he could not believe when everyone praised the rugged pan.
However, what is certain is that the mole is not the product of chance, but the result of a slow cooking process since pre-started and perfected in colonial times, when rich Mexican cuisine with Asian and European. |
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