Eating beef, pork, chicken, and seafood out of a hot lava-stone bowl is a thing, and you should try it. Meet molcajete. While molcajete is the term for the mortar-like cooking tool typically used to ...

For Lafayette native and home cook Chip Castille, this is "The Year of the Molcajete." With this Mexican version of a mortar and pestle made from volcanic rock, Castille has been exploring the ...

The molcajete, a Mesoamerican stone mortar and pestle, didn’t evolve as a cooking implement. They were — and still are — traditionally used for grinding and pounding herbs, spices and chiles and ...

Learn How to Cure a Molcajete by following these easy steps. This tool is a staple in any Mexican kitchen. It’s used to crush ...