WHAT IS CINCO DE MAYO? 🇲🇽

This celebration commemorates Mexico's 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. It’s a relatively minor holiday in Mexico but in the United States, Cinco de Mayo has become a celebration of Mexican culture. Now, with the facts out of the way, let’s get this party started.

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Cinco De Mayo With Angela Cervantes

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a program by Mexican-American writer, Angela Cervantes, author of Coco and many other books for young readers. Angela will share the story of how she became a writer and will follow her talk with a Q&A session to allow young readers and aspiring writers the opportunity to ask questions!
Open to 3rd-7th graders. To participate via Zoom, register in advance. You’ll be sent a link for the event and a password.

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Cinco De Mayo Virtual Festival

USA Multicultural and Angel Aguilar Presents our very first Cinco De Mayo Virtual Festival. Since you can't join us in person, we are coming to you LIVE with artists, dancers, musicians, magicians, from around the world! Join us and share the love!!!!! Prizes! If you would live to participate, PM now! Andale!!!

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Cinco de Mayo falls on a Tuesday this year. That coordinates perfectly with our love of ‘Taco Tuesday.’ Time for families to gather around the dinner table to indulge in some mouthwatering tacos. 😋 But there are other traditional foods that are easy to prepare in addition to your shelter-in-place celebration! Here are some tasty ideas on my menu this year you should try.

Make Tortillas

Hello my beautiful family today I'm going to share with you how to make the best and perfect tortillas every time! I'm not going to lie tortillas was one of ...

Delicious Guacamole

Rick Bayless shares his tips on making guacamole.

Elote Mexican Street Corn

Mexican street corn | Elote | Mexican Corn - In this video recipe I will be show all just how easy and it is to make the mexican treat, Mexican Street Corn. ...

Pozole Verde

Join Rick Martinez in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as he makes pozole verde with chicken, a Mexican stew that features pozole corn. We like toasting the cann...

The Perfect Margarita

It's the day we've all been training for: CINCO DE MAYO!! Please enjoy this easy way to make the PERFECT margarita. Cheers!

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¡Ole! Here’s some fun Cinco de Mayo ideas for the perfect finishing touches to your Mexican fiesta!

Banner Decoration

This colorful, simple, and easy decoration will liven up any room for your Cinco de Mayo party. Try it! And don't miss our other short, helpful how-to videos...

Tissue Paper Flowers

An easy how-to on making Mexican tissue paper flowers. Here's the link tot he blog post I wrote about this project. Photos of the finished project can be fou...

Piñata

Want to know how to make a piñata from scratch? Watch this fun step-by-step tutorial to learn how to create an adorable mini piñata that will bring your Cinc...

Maracas

Hola! Cinco de Mayo is a holiday that celebrates the date of the Mexican army's victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. Le...

Add some music and flowers … now it’s time to Zoom your friends and family to toast the first (and hopefully last) Quarantine Cinco de Mayo.