Here is another great article from Dick & Sharon's LAprogressive.com
To Survive the Coronavirus, Americans Must Learn from Mexicans
Alvaro Huerta: If the coronavirus crisis continues beyond the projected months, Mexicans in el norte will simply resort to the healthy culinary ways of their/our ancestors.
In terms of food, I’ve noticed that Americans have been pillaging Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Costco, etc., like there’s no tomorrow. During the global depression of the 1930s, living in a small rancho (Zajo Grande) in the beautiful Mexican state of Michoacán, my parents and family members survived on basic Mexican staples, like maíz and frijoles. Making/consuming tortillas hechas a mano de maízwas/is common in the rancho. (I’m sure there was much more variety in their daily diet, like queso, chile, avocados, nopales, etc., which I need to investigate further with my older relatives from Zajo.) They didn’t consume meat and poultry regularly until they migrated to el norte. (I think too much red meat contributed to my father’s death of cancer.