Feeding The Mexican Revolution
Lunch time at a camp near Juarez, Mexico 1911. Courtesy of the Library of Congress
During the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) women fought in the revolution and some served as camp cooks. They were typically mestizas (people of mixed ethnicity) or Indian women who foraged for edible plants, berries, mushrooms, herbs, and insects and bartered with locals for pigs, fowl, and dairy products. Soldaderas set up camp and cooked foods that filled the tortillas they made in short feeding the revolution.
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