TOliver wrote:

> Of course the Aztecs seem likely to have eaten members of neighbor groups
> which paid them tribute. Likely more than ceremonial removal of hearts from
> living sacrificial victims, there's good chance that their population growth
> had outstripped the availability of animal protein in the Valley of Mexico.

Some of the men who served under Cortes wrote accounts that provided
the first European views of Aztec life. Bernal Diaz, for example,
includes a number of descriptions of Aztec foods. Many of of them are
quite recognizable as "Mexican" dishes, 'though the tlacatlaolli, or
human stew, mentioned by Benardino De Sahagún, doesn't appear on the
menus of any of MY local Mexican restaurants.

Gary