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Starting in 1938, anthropologists and naturalists visiting Oaxaca mentioned a visionary tea made from a plant variously called hierba Maria (herb of Mary), hoja de adivinación (leaf of prophecy), or ska Maria Pastora (leaves of Mary the Shepherdess).
Reason Magazine 2009
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In Central Mexico, mint, called hierba buena, is frequently added to meat and poultry dishes.
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So just watch out if you're inclined to smoke up and take along your grass, pot, boo, mota, hierba or weed with you.
Seat belt, cell phone and speed limit laws are enforced in Oaxaca 2009
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So just watch out if you're inclined to smoke up and take along your grass, pot, boo, mota, hierba or weed with you.
Seat belt, cell phone and speed limit laws are enforced in Oaxaca 2009
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In Central Mexico, mint, called hierba buena, is frequently added to meat and poultry dishes.
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Spearmint sorbet: Sorbet de hierba buena: Mexican Recipe
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Spearmint sorbet: Sorbet de hierba buena: Mexican Recipe
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With maxixe (pronounced mah-SHEESH '), Mangan and others at UMass grow chipilin (cheep-LEEN'), a legume from Mexico and Central America; jilo (hee-LOH '), an eggplant-like crop grown in Brazil and West Africa; and hierba mora (eer-BAH' MOR-rah), a member of the tomato family.
Ethnic Food: Farmers Find A Future In Immigrant Vegetables 2010
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La gobernadora (Larrea tridentata) and hierba de burro (Ambrosia dumosa) form the scrub that dominates the northwest part of the Sonoran Desert.
Sonoran desert 2009
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Flavored with onions and spices, the kebe cruda in Puebla contains the addition of fresh chile seeds and is served with chopped green onions, chopped jalapeño or serrano chiles and hierba buena (mint.)
Immigrant Cooking in Mexico Part 3: The Lebanese of Puebla 2007
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