Appetizers and Little Dishes

There’s a certain irony in the fact that appetizers have always numbered among my most popular dishes. Even now, I can’t help smiling at the idea, because appetizers as such barely exist in Mexico. But although we have no equivalent of the “starters” part of the typical menu of the United States, we do have a glorious array of little dishes, nibbles, and irresistible street foods that we fit into windows of opportunity at almost every hour between breakfast, the midday main meal, and the modest, rather late supper.