Texican Eva Longoria Introduces Us To Her Beloved Mexico in Vogue Mexico May 2023 AOC Fashion

On March 26, 2023, Longoria debuted her new CNN show, “Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico”, which is modeled after the very successful “Searching for Italy with Stanley Tucci”. She is both host and executive producer of the series.

Longoria tells the story of her show in Vogue Mexico, interviewed by Sofia Agostini in “Eva Longoria reconnects with her roots on the cover of Vogue Mexico.” Ruben de Melo Moreira styles the star in Bally, Gabriela Hearst, Levi’s, Prada, Proenza Schouler, Valentino for images by Alexi Lubomirski [IG]./ Hair by Teddy Charles; makeup by Holly Silius

Eva Longoria Searches for Mexico

Best known for her role in the hit ABC series Desperate Housewives — a gig that earned Longoria a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe nomination — the people-loving Texican‘s travel and food show takes us on an enthralling journey across Mexico's diverse regions to uncover its unique and colorful cuisines.

The series consists of six episodes, each exploring a different location in Mexico, including Jalisco, Mexico City, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Veracruz, and Yucatan. Throughout the show, Longoria immerses herself in the rich culture, landscape, and history of Mexico, which have all played a significant role in shaping its world-renowned cuisine.

There are plenty of star chefs in the series, but Eva Longoria is unusually mindful of the stories of simple people like Ponciano Méndez, a farmer from Santa Ana Zegache, a town one hour from the capital of Oaxaca. In the valley where Ponciano lives, corn has been planted for more than six thousand years; In the neighboring valley, the oldest maize remains of humanity were found.

The final episode of the inaugural season aired on Sunday, April 30, at 9 pm ET/PT on CNN, with Longoria exploring the region of Veracruz and retracing the footsteps of her ancestor, Lorenzo Longoria, who arrived there 400 years ago.

I truly love the show and was eager to learn more about Eva’s experiences of visiting indigenous communities and eating a traditional decolonized diet.

Before the Spanish conquest, Mexico was a predominantly vegetarian territory. The pig, cow, goat and sheep are products of colonization, which is a fascinating reality in the narrative of human origins driven by this vision of male hunters.

Note that in reality women hunted, too, but the larger question is to understand civilizations where meat held no real place of importance. When the Indians hunted animals in today’s Mexico, they ate turkey or pigeon, and in extremely moderate amounts.

‘Flaming’ Hot Is Longoria’s Directorial Debut

Flamin’ Hot is a biographical dramedy that tells the story of Richard Montañez, a former janitor at Frito-Lay who has long claimed to have invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos while working at a Frito-Lay’s factory in the early 1990s. Last month, Flamin’ Hot won the Audience Award at the 2023 SXSW Film & TV Festival.

The multi-talent allows that the story may not be true and does call it fiction to be safe, but she sees the survival of her people in the disciplined bravado of Richard Montañez.