Leftover hard-boiled eggs? You’re off to a good start.
And yet, it was the delicate pastel-green egg tacos, sticking out like ladyfingers in a sea of chocolate truffles, that made the biggest impact on me during my first trip there., and I soon found out that these double-sauced tacos are ubiquitous throughout the Yucatán peninsula.
Papadzules brilliantly showcase core staples of the Mayan kitchen: corn, squash seeds, tomato, egg, and little else. The name is something of a mystery. One oft-repeated translation is something akin to “nobleman’s meal.” But in 1942, Mayan scholar and linguist Dr. Alfredo Barrera Vásquez, in the Yucatan newspaper Diario de Sureste, devoted a column to “papasul,” reaching back to 16th century texts to conclude that it simply means “unctuous meal.” That it is.
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