The other week was Mexican culinary week . So when I started to look up some recipes in the internet I encountered this Azteque-Gold drink.  I checked the ingredients of the recipe and imagined how it would taste like. In that moment I had this flash back to the year 2012, end of May: Berkeley, California, some small Mexican café. What I remember is the Mexican Hot Chocolate I drank in that café.  In fact it was always on my mind after I left Berkeley. Every time I had a Hot Chocolate I wished it could have been a Mexican one. But never did I think of preparing it myself until I found the Azteque-Gold recipe. What I want is to share it with you, so that you can be part of this Mexican Hot Chocolate dream as well! Enjoy! Mexican Hot Chocolate / Azteque Gold Ingredients: 1/5 cup water Cocoa powder or pieces of your favorite chocolate Vanilla essence or vanilla sugar 4/5 cup milk Some cinnamon A touch of salt Some chili powder, more or less Whipped crea

I would like to mention culinary misfits . Der Spiegel (Germany) published an article about them; they are vegetables and fruits that have some aesthetic fault (asymmetric apples, two- or three legged carrots etc.). Around 25 – 50 % of the entire vegetable harvest on a small/normal sized vegetable farm in Germany (I think this information is transferable to a lot of other countries or fruit farming as well) would be useless in the point of view of the farmer, since retailers i.e. supermarkets wouldn’t buy them. The consumers- we people- don’t want to buy products that are out of our standard norms, it’s simple as that. Note that there is no health risk in eating a two-legged carrot or a crooked cucumber!  These farms experience a financial loss in culinary misfits. They end up most likely being chucked away or fed to animals etc. So what can we do about it? First of all I as a consumer need to change my attitude and be ready to pick the ugly vegetable instead of the perf