La Candelaria (Candlemas Day)

La Candelaria (Candlemas Day)

When I was doing research for my book, “Food from my Heart,” I uncharacteristically made a trip to Oaxaca in the winter. On every visit to this magical place that is my spiritual home, my first stop is the Benito Juarez market and a stall that sells all types of...
Days of the Dead

Days of the Dead

I think if I could choose one event to dramatize the spirit of Mexican religion, it would be the Day of the Dead, or actually Days —  Los Dias de los Muertos, November l and 2. To begin with, I assure you that this name does not sound in the least ghoulish or...
Barney Rosset Another Giant Is Gone

Barney Rosset Another Giant Is Gone

When Jamie Gillis, my long-time companion met Barney Rosset it was as if he had met God and he would always sit at his hero’s feet. As founder and editor of Grove Press, Barney almost single-highhandedly did away with censorship in the United States by...
If You Really Want to Cook Like Me

If You Really Want to Cook Like Me

Thanks to trending on Twitter many, many new users have signed up for my website so I will be reposting some of the most popular articles like this one from my book Zarela’s Veracruz (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) If you really want to cook like me… It’s like...