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Try Local Food
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Among the dishes you should try is the olla podrida (“rotten pot”–a dish of stewed lamb) and the asado (pork stew with chili). The tatemado (lamb roasted in a pit), the caldo con xoconostle (a soup made from a type of prickly-pear cactus), the gorditas de horno (baked corn pockets with savory fillings), the atole de pinole (pre-Hispanic drink) and the mescal are part of the local cuisine.
Ask after the queso de tuna, a kind of biscuit prepared with the juice from a prickly pear. Take it home and pair it with some goat’s cheese.
Location
Pinos, Zacatecas, Zac., México
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