Prime Corn, the ghost kitchen started by chef Wendy Juarez, specializes in the cuisine of pre-Hispanic Mexico — which is mostly plant-based.
Wendy Juarez’s Prime Corn uses pre-Hispanic ingredients, which are light, healthy and mostly plant-based.
So, on this day, the pumpkin is an ingredient for dulce de calabaza, a dessert that also includes guava and tejocote fruit, based on a recipe handed down from Juarez’s great-grandmother., a ghost kitchen she started last December, specializing in vegan and vegetarian dishes using ingredients from pre-Hispanic Mexico. Juarez, a native of Estada, Mexico, learned to cook from her mother.
“I started out a long time ago with the idea of teaching young kids or the new generation about our culture,” Juarez said, noting that kids who move to the United States adapt to the culture here that they forget their own. Juarez then talked to her mother about the conversation, and her mother reminded Juarez that the family didn’t eat much meat in Mexico — because they couldn’t afford it. “And we grew up very, very, very healthy,” she said.
The biggest staple in her mother’s kitchen, Juarez said, was corn. In Mexico, she said, “we have thousands of dishes made out of corn. We use corn in everything.”
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