President Pena Nieto Announces Policy to Promote Mexico's Culinary Industry Fox News Latino
go to original August 7, 2015

President Enrique Peña Nieto is promoting an effort to make Mexican gastronomy "a great source of inclusion and prosperity, as well as of international standing."

In unveiling his policy for the promotion of national gastronomy this week, Peña Nieto said the sector accounted for more than 5.5 million jobs and was "one of the main sources of income for Mexican households, and one of our major tourism attractions."

The president said the culinary industry's chain of value was one of the most widespread and diverse since it runs from small-scale farmers to food services, such as groceries, supermarkets and restaurants.

Peña Nieto said the sector had enormous potential to improve and grow in coming years.

...UNESCO declared Mexico's cooking part of the world's cultural heritage on Nov. 16, 2010.

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