"Alan Sandoval" > wrote in message
...
> My mother seemed to make this quite well though I know nothing of it's
> origin. It was simply described to me as Mexican meatball soup. I've
only
> found it at a few places here in S Calif.
>
> Is this a widely available traditional Mexican food? Is it regional? If
it
> is cross-regional does it differ from place to place?


It's funny, 'cause I have 5 Mexican cuisine cookbooks and only one of them
has a recipe for albóndigas -- "Albóndigas con tecino." And there it's not
a soup.

And as an aside, that cookbook also includes a popular Mexican saying that
mentions meatballs: "Salir más caro el caldo que las albóndigas."
Literally, I think, "Turns out the broth is more expensive than the
meatballs;" figuratively, "What's less important requires more
effort/money." I guess broth does require more effort....

Peter