In a form of traditional Mexican healing called curanderismo, medicine and memory intermingle in practices that are centuries old. Modern curanderas are preserving this everyday magic for future generations.
Next week, Hulu is releasing a series hosted by Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi, about the search for true American food. Taste the Nation follows Lakshmi as she travels across the country to learn about different styles of American cooking, with a focus on immigrant and indigenous cultures and foods. Lakshmi says, in the official trailer, that “everything that the American cuisine is today is because all these different people and different cultures contributed to it.”...
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Leah LeMoineMarch 26, 2019
Valley healer Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz carries on the tradition of her curandera great-grandmother with indigenous healing and cooking.