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View	Largest Cinco De Mayo Event Guest: Do you know where the world’s largest Cinco de Mayo event is held? The “Festival de Fiesta Broadway” held in Los Angeles, California brings out more than 600,000 people to celebrate with music and food making it the largest in the world. Two other big festivals are held far from Mexico, in Denver, Colorado, and St Paul, Minnesota, they draw hundreds of thousands of participants more
View	THE FIRST CINCO DE MAYO Guest: Do you know how and when the Cinco de mayo celebration started in the US? This holiday mainly started in the year 1967 when a group of California State University students decided to hold the first Cinco de Mayo commemoration in the United States. They wanted something to recapture their history and decided that the Battle of Puebla was symbolic. This helped them to connect it to their struggle for the formation of a Chicano Studies program at the university. more
View	Cinco De Mayo Special...Bringing Authentic Mexican Recipes To Your Everyday Dinner Table Guest: Ole Mexican Foods When you’re preparing for your Cinco de Mayo celebration, look for the fresh, high-quality, authentic Ole brand chips, tortillas and tostadas in your local supermarket. In this segment, TV Chef Eduardo Pria shows us simple Mexican recipes you can make at home. more
View	Cinco De Mayo Celebrations - A Taste of Mexico Guest: Ruiz Foods We’ll enlist the help from Kim Ruiz Beck of Ruiz Foods as she shares the story of this 45 year old Mexican food company and how you can bring quality, convenience, and value to your family’s table with the El Monterey brand of frozen Mexican foods. more
View	Cinco De Mayo Celebrations - A Taste Of Mexico Guest: La Tortilla Loca Kathy Petersen, our resident “pursuer” of innovative ideas, features another one of her incredible discoveries that makes serving and keeping tortillas hot & fresh simple and easy using a microwave and the La Tortilla Loca tortilla warmer. more
View	AMERICA & CINCO DE MAYO Guest: Do you know why Cinco de Mayo so important for Americans? In addition to its importance in Mexico,Cinco de Mayo is significant to all Americans because it marks the last time that any foreign power has acted as the aggressor on North American soil. It also important as to Chicanos in America who celebrates it in appreciation of its cultural and historical significance. more
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