Until a few years ago, coconut desserts weren't a personal favorite. The sandy texture and sticky sweetness just never appealed. That changed for me one day on a culinary tour of Nogales, Sonora.
A machete-wielding man would set up his white wooden cart piled high with coconuts outside of the church I grew up going to on Sundays with my family in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I’d sneak out in the ...