Mexico in a Nutshell
English + Español
What is Mexico? To avoid regurgitating a page from the dictionary or digging myself into a chavinistic hole, I’ll offer some impressions: Mexico is, among other things…
English + Español
What is Mexico? To avoid regurgitating a page from the dictionary or digging myself into a chavinistic hole, I’ll offer some impressions: Mexico is, among other things…
English + Español
One thing Mexico has in abundance is intellectuals. It nurtures some of the world’s great writers, poets, musicians, painters, and historians. The historical reviews ofEnrique Krauze, the short…
Searching for food together with growing, cooking, and eating it has consumed more time than any human activity except sleeping for most of human history. Curiously, historians have never…
Read MoreFood is the ultimate expression of one’s culture, and even our smallest assumptions about what we eat reveal a lot about where we come from. Sometimes this happens not only for those who…
Read MoreGrowing up in the Midwest in the 1970s, I ate a bland diet of meat and potatoes and soothing Jell-O salads. Mexican food remained unknown territory until my brother moved to Las Cruces…
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