Good Food in Mexico City
The first time I was in Mexico City, I wasn't in love with the food I found in restaurants. To be fair, I had just come from Oaxaca where I...
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On the Road
Cemitas is Poblano for Dagwood Sandwich
There was so much good food in Puebla that it would be hard to choose a favorite. Cemitas comes close. This ridiculously big sandwich seems to stay the same size...
A New Bean From Puebla
The city of Puebla was a super surprise. I expected the food to be good but I had no idea quite how wonderful it can be. My friends Nuria and...
Cooking With Clay, Part 7: Cazuelas from Puebla
While Puebla is best known for it's pretty Talavera pottery with it's ornate decoration and fusion of styles from the old world to the new, I of course go looking...
Chile Navideño from Puebla
I was just in lovely Puebla. I've never been and it was a gas. I met some wonderful people and the food was incredible. I brought back a sack of...
Black Bean Soup from Barranquilla, Colombia
As a very pretentious young fellow in San Francisco in the early 1980s, my favorite book was The Gentleman's Companion. Actually it was two-volume set dedicated to good food, drink...
More Jewelry
This time from the road. This necklace comes from the Copper Canyon and was brought back by my friend Christopher Ann Cowen. The woven basket, a skill the Tarahumara Indians...
A Luncheon to Remember
I really knew next to nothing about Guanajuato before I went there last October. I knew the state also included San Miguel de Allende, a beautiful colonial town chock-a-block full...
A Spicy Beef Stew Called Churipo
In the beautiful state of Michoacan, the indigenous Purepecha kitchen includes a delicious beef and chile stew called Churipo. When I was in Uruapan last April, this bowl of red...
Queso Fundido and Knowing You Are Really Happy
Can you tell I enjoy being on the road? I also really love my life here and I know I'm the luckiest guy on the planet in that I get...
Dia de Muertos in Guanajuato (and a wee bit of politics)
There's a popular book on Mexico out that starts out with the assumption that Mexicans are essentially different than Americans and in order to understand them, you need to assume...
Street of Beans
In Guanajuato, a lot of the pretty, painted talavera pottery comes from Dolores Hidalgo. For me, the thrill was the street that seemed almost dedicated to beans. Right in the...