How does the climate influence the production of Mexican staple foods?
Think about what a staple food is: It’s a food that is the basic of your cuisine. Therefore, the food has to be nutrient-dense, fairly inexpensive, and easy to get. This means, that it has to be made of whatever is easy to grow in whatever region you’re discussing. In Mexico, plants like maize, beans, chilies, avocados, tomatoes, cilantro, and rice all grow easily and cheaply in many parts of the country, so most traditional, staple, dishes in Mexico consist of these ingredients. Foods that are more common to, say, French cuisine don’t grow as well in Mexico or they don’t grow at all, which is why they will be uncommon. If you’re talking about how climate CHANGE influences food production, it influences the same way it influences anything: All plants have a particular temperature range and moisture level that enables that plant to grow and produce seeds. If that temperature range is too high or low, or the moisture level is too high or low, the plants simply won’t grow. If Mexican stap
