April 26, 2024 - Oaxaca en Denver is a two-day event bringing the Mexican state’s rich heritage to the westside.
February 8, 2024 - By tapping into the ritualistic flavors of fire and smoke, chefs Alejandro and Alberto Rodriguez are diversifying Mexican cuisine in Colorado. The brothers’ food and beverage business, Dos Caras, is dedicated to using pre-colonial cooking techniques from Mexico “to show deference to our community and culture,” as Alberto says.
May 3, 2023- The original intent of Cinco de Mayo was to celebrate Mexico’s pride and fight for sovereignty and autonomy during the early 1860s.
Reclaiming that pride is one of the goals of “Cinco de Mayo en Westwood,” a free community celebration Saturday on Morrison Road (between Osceola Street and Meade Street) in front of the RISE Westwood Campus. It runs from noon to 7 p.m.
July 20, 2023 - Frida Kahlo, woman empowerment, local artists, chefs and mole, gallons upon gallons of mole, will collide this weekend for two events at the RISE Westwood Campus at 3738 Morrison Road. - Frida Kahlo, woman empowerment, local artists, chefs and mole, gallons upon gallons of mole, will collide this weekend for two events at the RISE Westwood Campus at 3738 Morrison Road.
Aug. 14, 2023 - Eight organizations will receive a combined $10.7 million in funding from Denver to continue providing food and food education to youth in their respective communities.
Aug. 17, 2023 - Two communities in the Westwood neighborhood are coming together to throw a culturally fused night market filled with food, dancing, vendors and, most importantly, unity.Activists in the primarily Mexican-American Westwood neighborhood want to change that, and for the third year in a row, community partners there are holding a wide-ranging celebration of their culture.
Aug. 17, 2023 - “This event is just our first one, but we hope it can continue for many years to come,” Luong said. “Who knows, maybe this can help preserve this area. Like just letting the city know that this area cannot be pushed out because these cultural things all happen here.”
October 14, 2022 - No part of the animal goes to waste. The bones are used to make broths, and the charcoal in the pit becomes compost for the garden at Re:Vision, a nonprofit based in Westwood. The Re:Vision campus is where Avila prepares the lamb in the commercial kitchen and cooks it in a permanent barbacoa pit.
Re:Vision's nonprofit initiative helps struggling families with little access to grocery stores and fresh foods to cultivate gardens in their own yards.
April 28, 2024 - Mariana del Hierro, executive director of Re:Vision, said sentiments like Miller’s are why the nonprofit helps put on cultural events including their ancestral food series, which focuses on introducing traditional indigenous cuisines to the neighborhood and Denverites.
“I think a lot of perceptions in the U.S. is that Mexican immigrants are just this one identity,” del Hierro said. “Here with our events, we have the unique opportunity to show just the complexities of the culture and the culinary traditions and just the people period… It is like a sampling of just the diversity and the beauty that is Mexico.”