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Chef Roberto Santibañez on grapes and his new Brooklyn restaurant 27 Aug 2013 | 04:20 am
When people ask me for my favorite Mexican restaurants in New York City, Fonda is typically high on my list. The restaurant’s two locations (in Park Slope and the East Village) are comfortable and coz...
Drinking homemade pulque — and visiting a real pulque farm — in Tlaxcala 7 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
My first pulque experience happened at La Pirata, a pulquería in the Escandón neighborhood where locals go to drink and play dominoes. My friend Jesica had warned me that pulque was an acquired taste,...
A photo tribute to Mexican corn 31 Jul 2013 | 09:25 pm
There’s a saying in Mexico: sin maíz, no hay país. It means without corn, there is no country. This isn’t really an overstatement — corn has been domesticated in Mexico since at least 2,500 B.C., and...
For those hot summer days: agua mineral preparada 23 Jul 2013 | 06:18 pm
I have a guest post today from my friend Macarena Hernández. She told me this story while I was hanging out with her in San Antonio recently. Agua mineral preparada is one of my antojos. They’re very...
Cantonese food at Shun Wang in Elmhurst 18 Jul 2013 | 01:51 am
Every time I’d walk by Shun Wang, a Chinese restaurant near my house in Queens, my mouth opened a little. Caramel-brown, glistening ducks hung on a hook inside the kitchen, next to what looked like a ...
Pozole: A soup without borders 8 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
I have a guest post today from Laura Elliott, an American expat living in Mexico City. Her new blog is called American Chilanga, and it’s about her adventures in the city that we both love. In this po...
Rustic quesadillas de xocoyol, in the Estado de México 4 Jul 2013 | 03:14 am
This past weekend, I visited some new friends at their home in Xalatlaco, a small city in the State of Mexico. For breakfast — a late breakfast for me, around 11 a.m. — they made quesadillas de xocoyo...
What it means to be home 17 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
Yesterday, my friend Fany and I were trying to make plans to hang out, and I told her I’d be in Mexico for the next two weeks. “Again?” she said. “You know, you haven’t arrived.” She was right: I had...
Concha taste test #17: Rosetta Bakery 8 Jun 2013 | 03:46 am
The conchas at Mexico City’s Rosetta bakery are quilted in dark, chocolate-sugar diamonds. The rolls are dense but somehow airy; yeasty, but not too chewy or sweet. On a recent visit, I gobbled almost...
Pati Jinich on Mexico City, her new cookbook and love for her native cuisine 28 May 2013 | 08:37 pm
Pati Jinich, a Mexican chef with a television show on PBS, almost spent her career as a Latin American policy analyst. (Which is crazy, because she’s excellent on TV: warm, charismatic, approachable.)...
