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May 2: Dia de la Santa Cruz, when crosses are erected and decorated
with flowers. The people celebrate with fireworks and picnics, often  a
barbacoa, barbecue. Although, from its name, the day of the Holy
Cross, it is ostensibly a Christian holiday, the celebration is of
pre-Colombian origin. In the Mayan culture the cross symbolized the
four corners of the earth, and the spring holiday celebrates rebirth.
Today, the holiday unofficially honors construction workers, who were
the ones to sustain the celebration by building makeshift crosses on
the rooftops of unfinished churches during the last century.  May 5 or
Cinco de Mayo: anniversary of Battle of Puebla, at which the  Mexican
army defeated that of the French on May 5, 1862.  May 15: the Feast of
San Isidro, patron saint of grain, livestock and  agriculture.  MENU :
**Sikil-p'ak with fried tortillas **Empanadas de San Cristobal  de las
Casas **Seviche estilo Acapulco **Coliflor en Aguacate  **Costillas de
Puerco a la Parilla **Tiras de Puerco con Cola **Rice  **Flan  Notes:
The Monthly Food Column is presented as a service of  COOK'SBOOKS and
AMES BOOKS: column appeared each month in Behind The  Times, the
monthly newspaper of Orange County, Vermont 1997.  >A KitPATh bust
98-Feb  Recipe by: Marguerite Ames, Food Columnist 1997May Recipe by
"Pillsbury Kitchens' Family Cookbook" 1979 edition Posted to  MC-Recipe
Digest by KitPATh <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu> on Feb 17, 1998

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