Seafood-laden aguachile is one of Mexico’s most popular restaurant dishes — though it originally wasn’t eaten with shrimp, or any seafood at all
When Valle told his mother that he planned to call the stall Don Vergas — an innuendo-laden name that elicits either gleeful titters or knowing eyerolls when customers first hear it — she begged him to name it something else. But Valle knew what he was doing. Last June, the online magazine Cultura Colectiva produced a video about Valle and what the presenter called “los mariscos más verga de la ciudad” — roughly “the best shellfish in the city.
In the town’s fortified, pastel-colored center, we met Valle’s friend, César Echegaray, for lunch at his restaurant, where we ate giant grilled river shrimp and several variations on aguachile. Echegaray gestured to the long plate of curiously mild shrimp in the center of the table, flavored with, a mild, prefab chile powder, instead of the wild chile from the nearby hills.
Production of chiltepín has been in decline since the late 19th century, when the dictator Porfirio Díaz sold off huge swaths of land to foreign investors to develop a more industrialized agricultural system. Throughout the 20th century, and particularly during the Green Revolution, from the 1950s to the 1970s, deforestation eliminated much of the chile’s habitat.
I snapped a green chile off the branch and chewed. The flesh tasted vividly of grass, with a sharp but curiously mellow heat. That’s because this plant had grown in direct sun, Nafarrate said. Plants that grow in the shade produce hotter, more flavorful chiles. Four years back, Nafarrate said, the state government introduced domesticated chiltepín as a cash crop, but the plants have produced elongated, rather than spherical, berries that are less spicy, less vegetal, and less wild.
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Sinaloa’s industrial development focused principally on harnessing the power of its 11 broad rivers to feed the valleys that, even today, feed Mexico. Fishing villages, often far from infrastructure that could connect them to urban markets, sat on the shallowest parts of the lagoons, and the subsistence fishermen who lived there used cast nets, rather than boats, to collect their daily catch.
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