• Mike Sula
  • Eggs and salsa diabla

Salsa macha is an oil-based salsa—more like a chili paste—that originated in Veracruz. I’m not sure we’ll ever know why someone decided to name this excellent condiment with the feminine form of macho, but local tamale and masa tycoons La Guadalupana avoided gender confusion by calling their commercial La Lupita brand the less ambiguous “Salsa Diabla,” or “she-devil sauce.”