Just the right time for a Mexican lime

“In steamy summer Mexico, you ask for un limon if you want a lemon and una lima if you need a lime. Una limonada will get you a lemonade. But for limeade — well, literally, una bebida a base de jugo de lima or agua fresca de limon verde.

However you say it, Mexican limes are the perfect warm-weather seasoning.

“Go into any Mexican kitchen,” says Eva Garcia Jimenez, proprietress of Magdalena’s Bed and Breakfast in San Miguel de Allende, “and you are likely to find a big bowl of limas. They are not only a common ingredient in everyday Mexican cooking. They show up on almost every plate, both as garnish and squeezable condiment. Here they are used in many nonculinary ways, too.”"

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