This sets the stage for the final chapter, which contains complete recipes for all the delicious sounding foods. Salsa Stories can work well in a classroom on many levels. The individual stories can serve as wonderful illustrations of the richness and diversity of Hispanic life. The lessons about family, trustworthiness, and friendship can be used as springboards for further discussion about character. In Mexico, everybody loves the typical mariachis, who stroll the streets wearing their wide-brimmed sombreros, singing songs of love and adventure.
Mariachis play requintos and bass violins, guitarrones and mandolinas.
And they play guitars. But there's more than mariachi music in Mexico. In Paracho, guitars are everywhere. In large factories and small workshops, workers painstakingly make guitars by hand. Each guitar takes a month or longer to complete.