After traveling around trying all different kinds of food from different parts of the world, you only get to realize that it doesn't matter how amazing is the food everywhere else, at the end there is nothing better than your grandmother's home-made food. The food that you grew up with, and you learned how to love, which has slowly throughout the years become part of your personal culture and which has played an important role in some of your dearest memories, is the food that ultimately becomes irreplaceable for you. And its not only until you are away from home, and you finally find yourself deprived from it, and really find out that no matter how many versions your try of that particular food, not even the best restaurants in the world can compare to the home made dish made by the own hands of your mother or grandmother.
In my case, my favorite food in the world are my grandmother's enchiladas, I cannot emphasize enough how amazing her enchiladas are. I have tried so many times to find a place that would serve something at least close to be compared with, and I haven't found a single place, not even in Mexico! Which is why I have come to the conclusion that they are irreplaceable, and now I refuse to eat them, unless I am having them at my grandmother's house. I know I may be over-reacting, and perhaps for most people they might not even be as good, but to me they form part of my whole culture, I learned to eat spicy food with this dish, I grew up having them regularly, and even now; every time I think on going back home, the first thing that comes to my mind is the amazing enchiladas made with the kind of love only grandmothers know how to give, that will be awaiting for me as soon as I arrive home.
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