Florentine Codex, late 16th century. Aztec cuisine is the cuisine of the former Aztec Empire and the Nahua peoples of the Valley of Mexico prior to European contact in 1519. The most important staple was corn (maize), a crop that was so important to Aztec society that it …

2022年12月5日 · Written in parallel columns of Nahuatl and Spanish texts and hand painted with nearly 2,500 images, the encyclopedic codex is widely regarded as the most reliable source of information about Mexica culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico.

Nahuatl (the Aztec language) and Latin. This codex gives us exhaustive lists illustrating food and dining in sixteenth century Mexico. Tour The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of the Empire, prepare a meal using New World ingredients and celebrate the bicentennial of Mexican independence. ¡Buen provecho! Maite Gomez-Rejón The Getty Villa June 2010

2022年7月20日 · Since it was easier to grow crops than hunt, the Aztec diet was primarily plant-based and focused on a few major foods. Maize, beans, salt and chilli peppers were the constants of Aztec cuisine, providing the average Aztec with a well-rounded diet without major deficiencies in vitamins and minerals. Daily meals

2024年1月3日 · This section of the Florentine Codex (including some of the pages prior to the one linked) also talk about some of the foods that can be purchased from vendors in the marketplace. Among other things they sold tamales with chile sauce, axolotl tamales, mushrooms with a side of corn, fruit tamales, turkey eggs with a side of corn, mashed beans ...

2023年12月25日 · DALL-E in the style of the Codex Tudela. From the heart of the Aztec Empire, words like “chocolate,” “cocoa”, “avocado,” “guacamole,” “tomato,” and “chilli” have woven ...

2024年5月27日 · As the Florentine Codex, a 16th-century ethnographic study of Aztec culture, declares: "Maize is our flesh, our bones, our sustenance." To support their burgeoning population, the Aztecs developed a range of innovative farming techniques that maximized crop yields in the challenging terrain of the Valley of Mexico.

2025年1月21日 · In the Florentine Codex the Aztecs compared body processes to those of plants and vegetables: ‘blood vessels were likened to reeds, moving the blood through the flesh as water moves through the earth. The description of the heart relates it closely to the sun: it is “round, hot... it makes one live”’. Just like a tortilla fresh from the griddle...!

The Aztecs were an agriculturally-based society and most spent their days working their fields and gardens or otherwise participating in cultivating food for their great city of Tenochtitlan. Maize or corn was the dominant staple crop of the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican cultures.

2010年7月3日 · The codex gives us exhaustive lists illustrating food and dining in sixteenth century Mexico with maize, the most important crop of the Americas, making numerous appearances. (There is also a section which describes excessive pulque drinking as making people happy, sad, insufferable, romantic or just plain sleepy!).