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History of Salsa Sauce
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Spanish explorers found tomatoes during their Mexican conquest. Not many references are found in Spanish documents mentioning tomatoes, though. Europeans would write of “tomates”, and Aztec lords were known to combine them with squash seeds and chili peppers, served on fish, lobster, venison and turkey. This condiment would come to be known as “salsa” in 1571, by Alonso de Molina. Salsa means “sauce” in Spanish, which indicates that the condiment originated in the Western hemisphere’s Spanish speaking countries. It was especially popular in Central America and Mexico. “ Salsa” actually means many different things in these countries, including sauces that are cooked or not, and served cold or hot, as well as some that are smooth and some that are chunky. Salsa consumption in the United States expanded beyond Hispanic areas in the 1940’s, first in the American Southwest and later over larger areas. The most popular salsa was – and is – a type of salsa cruda (meaning raw sauce) of Mexican extraction. It is also called salsa fresca (which means fresh sauce) and salsa Mexicana (which is Mexican sauce).