Most grocery stores tend to sell avocados green. This led to what I found to be a curious bit of advice in a cooking tips article I was reading: Buy your avocados in a Mexican grocery store because they sell them ripe. Does this mean you must buy your avocados ripe?
The avocado fruit is very important to Mexican cuisine. You may not know, however, that avocado leaves, or hojas de aguacate, are used in cooking as well, especially in the Southern regions of Mexico such as Oaxaca. The leaves may be used fresh or dried. Like bay leaves, they can be used whole, but they … Read more
Alligator Pear is another name for the avocado. The name came about perhaps as early as the late 1600’s but at least as early as the 19th century. Some sources indicate that the alligator pear may have stemmed from a mispronunciation of the Spanish word for avocado in Mexico, aguacate, which derived from the Nahuatl word ahuacaquahuitl, which meant testicle. Aguacate … Read more