Mexico Edition
World Family Photo Box Day leads today's complete edition for Mexico.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for printed pictures, old phones, albums, names written on backs, and the people a household remembers together.
National holiday. A significant day for Burkina's Catholic community. Churches fill, choirs sing, and afterward everyone gathers for a meal that always includes riz gras. The faith runs deep in the Centre-Ouest and the processions through Koudougou and Ouaga are a sight that stays with you.
The chile en nogada is the most patriotic dish in Mexico, and it is served only in August and September, when the walnuts and the pomegranates are in season. The chile en nogada is a poblano pepper stuffed with a picadillo of meat, fruit, and spices, covered in a walnut cream sauce, and garnished with pomegranate seeds and parsley. The dish was invented in 1821 by the nuns of Puebla to honor Agustin de Iturbide, and the three colors (green pepper, white sauce, red pomegranate) are the colors of the Mexican flag.
The chiltepin is the wild chili of the Sonoran desert, and it is the smallest and the hottest chili in Mexico (it is called "the mother of all chilies" because it is the oldest domesticated chili in the Americas). The chiltepin season begins in August, and the harvest is a community event: the families walk into the mountains, the women and children pick the tiny red chilies by hand, and the men dry them in the sun. The chiltepin is not farmed, it is wild, it is foraged, and it is sold by the handful in the markets of Sonora, Sinaloa, and Chihuahua.
You observe the snow leopard, Asian elephant, and markhor wild goat inhabiting Pakistan's diverse mountain and forest ecosystems. You find that Pakistanis typically keep dogs, cats, and chickens as their most common household animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.