Rather than give the history of Mexico's Independence Day, I re-discovered one of my favorite Mexican dishes at the Independence Day festival at Kennedy Park in Tucson. This would probably go better on a food blog, but this stuff was pretty good so I figured I'd share.
What that is is posole, a dish popularized by Native Americans, Mexicans, and Europeans. It is especially popular around Christmas in New Mexico, typically eaten on Christmas Eve to celebrate life's blessings. But they served it here at the festival and it was a surprising treat. Posole is a stew made with hominy, a type of puffed corn, pork, chicken, or vegetarian subsitute, garlic, and depending on the region, red or green chiles. Red chiles are popular in Southern New Mexico while Northern New Mexico favors green chiles.
The rest of the festival included live music and dancing and an appreciation for Mexico's independence from Spain for the past 197 years.
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