Pozole Mexico Independence Day, birthdays, Christmas and other holidays. Pozole was mentioned in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún. Since maize was a sacred plant for the Aztecs and other inhabitants of Mesoamerica, pozole was made to be consumed on special occasions. The conjunction of maize (usually whole hominy kernels) and meat in a single dish is of particular interest to scholars, because the ancient Americans believed the gods made humans out of "masa" (cornmeal dough). According to research by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
Booyah (stew) phonetically manage the hard-to-spell word 'bouillon', and they all are pronounced roughly the same". Booyah is still made in northern and northeastern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula at church picnics, county fairs, VFW gatherings, at booyah cooking contests, and in smaller amounts at private gatherings. Booyah (stew) Booyah (also spelled booya, bouja, boulyaw, or bouyou) is a thick stew, believed to have originated in Belgium, and made throughout the Upper Midwestern United States. Booyah can require up to two days and multiple cooks to prepare; it is cooked in specially designed "booyah kettles" and usually meant to serve hundreds