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 ...

On a summer day in 2018, Blanka Amezkua arrived in San Salvador Huixcolotla. The southeastern Mexican town is best known as the birthplace of papel picado — intricately cut, colorful tissue ...

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.

Defying growing mass-production techniques to make papel picado, second-generation paper cutter Yuridia Torres Alfaro makes her own stencils at her Xochimilco workshop. IE 11 is not supported.

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.

Mexican Artisans Aim to Preserve the Centuries-Old Tradition ‘Papel Picado' for Day of the Dead Begun in the 1800s, experts say ‘papel picado’ using tissue paper is probably a continuation ...

Since trade between Asia and Mexico began in the second half of the 16th century, the raw material for papel picado — tissue paper — probably arrived in Mexico sometime after that.

Indianapolis artist Beatriz Vasquez uses an Exacto knife like other artists use paint brushes. Vasquez is a self-taught master of the art of papel picado, an ancient Mexican custom of precisely ...

SA Flavor is selling its San Antonio papel picado ornaments again but says it is working with a limited supply this year. The online store has already sold out of the gold ornaments and is only ...

While some use pre-made stencils or laser cutters to mass-produce Day of the Dead decorations, Mexican artisans are working to preserve a centuries-old tradition of "papel picado." ...