Sienna Blog 4

For this blog post, I am interviewing my brother in law Pedro. He was born in Mexico and has Hispanic parents who feed him food from their culture and ethnicity. I've been privallige to have tried his mom’s food and it is the best Mexican food I've ever had. I, on the other hand, was born in California but raised in Nevada off of what you would call stereotypical American food. I learned a lot of neat facts about my brother in laws favorite foods from Mexico.  Below is the transcript of our interview.

Me:                                      What is your favorite meal?

Pedro:                                                            Carne asda Tacos

Me:                                                                  Do you have a favorite place to get the food? 

Pedro:                                                              Um, I would say in town, not really, but I've heard of really good restaurants out in California. The southern part.                        

                                                                   

 Me:                                                                Do you have a favorite food that your mom makes?

Pedro:                                                            A favorite food that my mom makes. I would have to say ironically again, but fish tacos, her way of making the actual fish is wildly different than what I'm used to having here.

Me:                                      What is something strange that people in America eat compared to Mexico?

Pedro:                                                             Hard shell tacos

Me:                                                                 What is your favorite thing to cook?

Pedro:                                                             Um, I cook a lot of things. I can't really say I have a favorite one. I go with what's easiest. So just the basic spaghetti's uh, yeah.

Me:                                                                 What do you think of the Americanized version of Mexican food?

Pedro:                                                               In my opinion, it is all trash. You cannot call something Mexican                                                                            and have it Americanized, you can call its Texmex, but then                                                                                                        people confuse it to the actual authentic Mexican dish, which in                                                                                                        my opinion is not okay.

Me:                                                                                                  Do you know, do you have a favorite fake kind of Mexican food                                                                                                               or place?

Pedro:                                                               No.

Me:                                                                                                  Okay. Um, what is your favorite food you remember having like a                                                                                  family event? So like birthday, funeral, stuff like that.

                                                           

Pedro                                  Things we always do. Whether it be a birthday special occasion that I've noticed is Carne Asada, that's just grilled steak and we usually pair it up with chicken and other stuff.

Me:                                      What is your favorite sweet thing from Mexico?

Pedro:                                                               Anything involving Tamarind. That's a special kind of fruit, but the Hispanic culture likes to mix it in with spicy, like salt and lime, which gives it a new depth of flavor.

Me:                                                                    Is food prepared specially in any way before cooking it? Like your meat before it is killed?

Pedro:                                 Um, I don't think it does. I think it's just depending on the skill of the person cooking it that makes it tastes different than other places.

Me:                                                                    What is your favorite snack from Mexico?

Pedro:                                 Any fruit especially watermelon

Me:                                      Thank you for taking the time to answer questions for me.

Pedro:                                                               Your welcome let me know if you have any more questions. I would be happy to answer them.