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MEXICO CITY — Mexico already has many of its monuments on UNESCO’s list of protected sites. Now the government is asking for international recognition for the country’s cuisine.
U.N. officials will decide this spring whether to add Mexico’s food to the organization’s list of intangible cultural patrimony, Mexican cuisine expert Gloria Lopez said Friday.
She said the methods of preparing traditional tamales and salsas should be protected as much as Mexico’s recognized physical heritage, such as the pre-Hispanic city around the pyramids of Teotihuacan.
