Food in Mexico

Mexican food. When you think of it, you probably don't think of actual Mexican food. You probably think of America's take on Mexican food.

Authentic Mexican food consists mainly of three things: beans, tortillas, and chili peppers. American-Mexican food consists of three entirely different things: beef, cheese, and deep-fried everything. Yes, these things are found in Mexican food, but nowhere near as much as in America.

America relies on fatty foods and beef, whereas Mexican food includes many varities of foods including fish, vegetables, and fruit.

A perfect example: Tacos.

Here is an American taco













As you can see it is filled to the brim with beef, which has been stuffed into a deep-fried tortilla.

Here is an authentic Mexican taco:














This taco looks a lot different, right? It still has some meat in it and the tortilla is still deep fried, but there is much less meat and the focus seems to be more on the vegetables in the taco.

Overall, I think that Mexican cuisine is completely different from American cuisine. Even worse is America's idea of Mexican food. The dishes that we all think of as Mexican (quesedillas, tacos, burritos) are made much different here than in Mexico.

Sources:
http://www.sallys-place.com/food/cuisines/mexico.htm
http://www.languagecrossing.com/Destinations/Mexico/Food_of_Mexico/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_cuisine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco