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MEXICO - GASTRONOMY
Cooks at a restaurant chop pork meat to make tacos at a market in Mexico City on May 5, 2011. Key to Mexican cuisine, fresh ingredients are still sold in markets across the center and south of the country, where traditional dishes are often found. Prickly pear cacti, yellow zucchini flowers, dark red hibiscus flowers and tropical fruit including the endemic mamey sit alongside delicacies such as grasshoppers on market stalls. Many hope UNESCO's special recognition of Mexico's entire national cuisine in November - along with French gastronomy and the Mediterranean diet - will help raise awareness of threatened culinary traditions.AFP PHOTO/OMAR TORRES
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