Taste: This Mexican steak picado recipe is really tender and delicious. Because it’s slow-cooked, the flavors of the tomato sauce, peppers, and beef all come together and make a rich and smoky ...

Image Blanka Amezkua at her home in the South ... Amezkua started incorporating papel picado into her work in 2017 after she and her husband moved to the South Bronx from his native Greece ...

XOCHIMILCO, Mexico — Mexican artisans are struggling to preserve the traditional manufacture of paper cut-out decorations long used in altars for the Day of the Dead. Defying increasingly ...

The Traditional Mexican Folk Art of Papel Picado. Tuesday, October 29, 2019. With a few slices of a knife, this Mexican artist creates pieces that take parties to another level while telling a story.

HOUSTON, Texas -- Papel picado, or punched paper, is a Mexican art form with a rich history. It is made by skillful artisans using tissue paper, a hammer, and chisels. Guadalupe Hernandez ...

Vasquez is a self-taught master of the art of papel picado, an ancient Mexican custom of precisely cutting scenes into paper. But she does so with a modern twist, turning paper into wearable art.

As she has since she was a child, Torres Alfaro punched stunningly sharp chisels into thick piles of tissue paper at her business, ‘Papel Picado Xochimilco.’ While others use longer-lasting ...

In Mexico, no festival or celebration is complete without the colorful punched-paper banners known as papel picado. As Tucson gears up for its annual Cinco de Mayo celebration, bright banners of ...

Mexican artisans are struggling to preserve the traditional manufacture of paper cut-out decorations long used in altars for the Day of the Dead. Defying increasingly popular mass-production ...