2-week glorious vacation Part 1
If I still had the restaurant I wouldn’t have been able to take 2 weeks plus off and would have missed the glorious vacation/celebration I just returned from. The itinerary took me to Albuquerque, El Paso, Texas, Casas Grandes,, Chihuahua, Mexico City ending...Bravo! Linda Ellerbee writes about today’s Mexico
Linda and I have been friends for years and I admire her very much. She comes to the restaurant, eats some tamales and we have profound conversations about how to help improve the image that Mexico has in the United States. Se not only knows Mexico well but loves it...Luxuriating in the Villa Ganz Guadalajara
I arrived in Guadalajara for my bus man’s holiday in dramatic fashion — in a wheel chair, my leg in an air cast propped up on my computer bag, my only addiction being the need to stay connected at all times.) A sudden and overwhelming desire for the...Feast of St. Christopher – Fiesta de San Cristobal
The first fiesta de pueblo, town feast, I attended was in 1985 in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. I have come at the time of a major local festival, the feast of the city’s patron, St. Christopher. The celebration begins a week before St....“Bad girl turns good” or why Mary Magdalene is so popular.
This weekend my dear friend Antonia, choreographer, yoga master and healer is putting on a show based on Mary Magdalene, the fallen woman who mended he ways and was declared a saint. It was quite a performance with sacred chants, dance and very much unlike the...
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.