Food and language stand for the basic relationship among human beings. Throughout history, the way of choosing, preserving and cooking foodstuffs has changed. Cooking turns into cuisine when well-outlined knowledge and expertise as to ingredients and utensils become a reality. And this is when the old basic ties with the language spring up all over again since each and every people have their own quirks and terms as expressions of their inner essence. As far as Mexicans are concerned, their features tell them apart from the rest of the world.

Their basic ingredients vary from maize, beans and chili to an endless array of fruits and vegetables. They season their food with a variety of mixtures –they’re so unique!- such as mole, original utensils like metate, molinillo, comal and molcajete. And their preference for pick-me-ups between meals is simply out of the ordinary.

For all of the above, their history, the one-and-only roots that’s the result of generations and generations of ancestral cultures with different ways of understanding the world, Mexican cuisine has been presented to UNESCO to be declared World Intangible Heritage, a process that’s currently underway.

We invite you to take a closer look into Mexico’s gastronomy during your stopover in Puerto Vallarta, even though you’ll also have a chance of tasting the finest international dishes in all kind of restaurants and eateries that serve from take-out food for 40 pesos to the finest delicacies money can buy. And don’t forget to try the tacos al pastor in a nearby joint, nor a paleta or agua de frutas. That’s indeed another way of understanding and taking the pulse of people in the streets of this lovely place.