My Mother, Aida Gabilondo
Today would have been my mother’s 104th birthday . She was an exceptional woman and, every year, I like to share a little bit from a book I’ve been working on about the lessons I learned from different people that got me to this point in my life. ...
Guanajuato – The City
I have a new love!! Or is it an old one revisited? I went to Guanajuato to see another dream fulfilled. I always wanted to be in a movie and I have a small singing role in Moronga, a black comedy that had its premiere at the Guanajuato Film Festival on July 26,...
Sobremesa
In most Latin American countries, there is a sacred tradition called the sobremesa, the after-lunch, after-dinner interlude filled with pleasant conversation, jokes, stories, singing, and dancing that sometimes goes on until dinner time I have to figure out how to...
Meeting my idol or heroine Teresa Castello de Yturbide
The first serious, scholarly yet appealing book I bought or was given was a book on Pre-Hispanic ingredients called La Presencia de la Comida Prehispanica, written by Teresa Castello Yturbide who, I think is a distant relative of the Emperor, Agustin de Yturbide,...
El Paso Thank You
Jesus and Mary Academy, first year, Front and Frowning; Though I was born and raised in Mexico, El Paso was my second home and the birthplace of my career. My mother had home-schooled my sisters and me using the Calvert School System, a teaching method used by...
The many lives of Zarela Martínez
Culinary legend Zarela Martínez introduced finely tuned, highly researched regional Mexican cuisine to a national stage, and has continued to blaze trails for more than three decades.