The guacamole, a story of mythology... and eroticism!

It is known to all lovers of Latin cuisine, and used all over Europe at the hour of aero: Do you know the true story of the guacamole?

Ah. The guacamole! It is tasted both at the apero and in dishes with Latin flavors. More than a culinary emblem, the guacamole is primarily synonymous with sharing and simplicity. This same simplicity we find in its original recipe, history for the least astonishing.

Older than half a millennium, she tells the Aztec gods and colonization, all sprinkled with a hint of eroticism... Does that talk to you? Then follow the guide, we take you in the backstage of this special food.

The lawyer, long before the guacamole

It is more than 10,000 years ago that our story begins, long before the Guacamole is invented. The lawyer is only a fruit, very little produced, but only civilizations Olmèques , Mayas , then Tolteques share generations in generations. We are then at the depths of ancient Latin America, called Meso-American. To better understand the mystery established at the time around the lawyer, we must rely on his etymology...

In Spanish, the lawyer, the main ingredient of the guacamole, reads aguacate a derivative of the old term ahuacatl , which meant "testicle" in the Aztec language. A comparison that would be due to the form of the fruit, similar to that of the organ.

Moreover, among the Mayans and their predecessors, the representation of the lawyer was so erotic that women had in no way the right to harvest them, nor even to crush them. Indeed, the civilizations of these times were of the view that only men and their “expert hands” could examine lawyers in order to check whether they were mature, without hurting them.

At this time, the lawyer still eats as a simple fruit. The guacamole comes a few centuries later.

The guacamole, a gift from the gods?

We have to wait for the beginnings of the Aztec civilization, around 1200 AD, for the guacamole to arrive. Of South American origin, the guacamole is yet a Castilian word, derived from ahuaca-mulli , which means “sauce to the lawyer”.

If the firstfruits of the recipe are still blurred, and while the Mexican and Colombian peoples still argue their origin, there is a legend around this story. A Aztec legend, narrated the mythological fable Quetzalcoatl , the divinity of the feathered serpent, still widespread in Latin America.

This Aztec god, a great religious figure of Meso-American, would be with his rival Tezcatlipoca at the origin of the myth of the creation of the Earth. To believe this legend, more precisely told in La leyenda de los Soles , it was during his passage on Earth that Quetzacoatl would have given humans the recipe of the guacamole, then considered as an aphrodisiac.

Two carefully crushed lawyers, a tomato cut into small pieces, a crushed chili pepper and cut to bind the two main ingredients. Thus, in a few ingredients, the guacamole was.

The European evolution of the guacamole

Today, the recipe of the guacamole as we know it has evolved slightly with the addition of onion, lemon and spices such as coriander, salt or pepper. a revisit that is not due to chance but to history, more precisely that of the conquest of the Spanish Empire.

It was after the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492 that the various Spanish conquistadors colonized the different American civilizations. And, one of the first expeditions, led in 1517 by Francisco Hernandez de Córdoba , is a real failure. A few men survive, and bring back to Spain only a few pieces of gold.

Intrigued by this treasure, it is then Hernàn Cortés which in turn leaves to the conquest of this country then considered an island by the Spanish, and which will later become Mexico. It is he who, during his first attempt at colonization, is conquered by the recipe of the guacamole.

Denying his discovery, he decided to bring her back to his land and present him to his monarch, Charles I of Spain and all his people. That is why, since then, it is not uncommon to hear the nicknamed lawyer Oro verde “Green gold”. Rapidly adopted, the Iberian population will soon adjust this recipe according to their suits, hence the addition of several spices.

So our history of the guacamole and its origins ends. Whether you are a follower of the original recipe or the more modern version of it, you can now share the story of the adventures of this food with those who will share it with you. And since the guacamole is a symbol of sharing, we decided to entrust our Asian version of this recipe: tested and approved!

Our recipe from guacamole, with Asian flavours!

Ingredients

• 2 mature lawyers
• 1 tomato
• 1 half onion
• Lemon juice
• Bird
• 1 tablespoon of soup nuoc-mâm
• A few drops of sauce
• Season according to your convenience!

Steps

• Remove the skin from lawyers
• crush lawyers, mix them with cubes cut onions
• Cut the tomatoes into pieces, add to the mixture
• Cisel the bird chili and add it
• Add the nude-mâm tablespoon
• Add the lemon, then the sriracha sauce drops
• Mix, taste, season with your convenience
• Enjoy!