Christmas means cookies, right? My family makes gingerbread cookies — sometimes in the shape of a pitched roof and walls that we attempt to glue together with frosting for a complete house, or sometimes in the shape of people, a tradition that goes back at least as far as Queen Elizabeth I, whose royal gingerbread maker supposedly served spiced cookies …
Editor’s Note: Sign up to CNN Travel’s four-part Unlocking Mexico newsletter for more on the country and its cuisine. Guajillo studio/Adobe Stock Birria is the quintessential dish of Jalisco and in recent years, it’s become wildly popular in the United States and beyond. It’s also the basis for quesabirria, in which some of that meat and white cheese are stuffed …
