Guacamole

Soft, smooth, creamy and yielding…  somehow I don’t think those adjectives came to mind to the first Mesoamericans that stumbled across an avocado.  Fortunately, their discovery was the world’s gain.  I love to celebrate that discovery every now and then by smashing together some avocados along with other new-world crops  and making what the Spanish called “the butter of the poor”, but what we’ve all come to know and love as “guacamole”.