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Celaya
Maria Aguilar |
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| Maria ("Lupe") Aguilar left Mexico 30 years ago, and now lives in Bath, Michigan and is an active member of the Cristo Rey community in Lansing. At church and Latino festivals, she prepares and sells Mexican foods, some from her hometown, Celaya, Guanajuato. For more than 20 years she has been making tamales, both the savory variety with pork, which most Michiganders know, and the sweet variety, which Mexican-Americans favor at Christmas and other festive occasions. For nearly as long, she has made and sold gorditas, thick shells made from masa that are filled with meat, potatoes, and vegetables or vegetables or cheese. Another of her specialties are flautas, a form of taco found in northern Mexico; a tortilla is filled with beef, generally, then rolled and fried. Maria cooks the real Mexican food, the same as she prepares for her grandchildren and very different than anything you are likely to find at commercial establishments. | ||||