August 2025

The Mayans’ use of Chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius) traces back 4,000 years. Despite colonial shifts in diet, it is a staple of Yucatec Maya cuisine, valued for its nutritional richness and earthy flavor. This native leafy green, also known as “tree spinach or Mayan spinach,” is an important superfood in the Yucatán. Its persistence in backyards […]

“And this was the beginning of the formation of the people. Yellow corn and white corn were the food. From these, they made the body and the flesh. Ground was the corn, and made drink of, nine times was it washed. Their flesh was of the yellow corn, their blood of the white corn. Thus