La Cuaresma – Lent
February 25, 2010
Lent – Cuaresma
In a way, Lent is like New Year’s Day –you give up things that you shouldn’t be having any way, like chocolate or drinking, usually with the hope of losing weight. But observant people do try to make real sacrifices during this time of reflection that begins today, Ash Wednesday and goes on [...]
Cri-Cri – Mexico’s most famous children’s composer
February 16, 2010
Every time my granddaughter Violeta comes to visit I play her a Cri Cri song that I used to listen as a child and show her one of the CriCri videos on youtube. She loves them and I hope that parents or grandparents will remember these whimsical songs and buy them for their little ones. [...]
Why I love to teach
January 28, 2010
One of the most frustrating things to me is the fact that there are n0 inexpensive venues where I could give cooking classes without having to charge an arm and a leg. I get so many requests for cooking lessons and have no where to give them where it will be worth my time.
Luckily my [...]
Zarela continues to expand regional focus
January 17, 2010
Zarela Restaurant is widely recognized as the one restaurant that gives star treatment to the many regional cuisines of Mexico unmatched in Manhattan dining annals, by featuring weekly gastronomic tours of different states from Fridays through Mondays each week. Commuters have taken issue with the scheduling of these tastings because they usually do not come [...]
Las posadas
December 15, 2009
Posadas are pre-Christmas parties re-enacting Mary and Joseph looking for lodging. They are held from December 16 to December 24. These parties are about sharing food, fun, and traditions.
Days of the Dead Celebrations
October 24, 2009
Zarela Restaurant honors Budd Schulberg for the Day of the Dead Celebrations
Over the 22 years that Zarela Restaurant has been open, I have set up may Days of the Dead altars: my ex-husband , my father, my mother, my dear friend Robert Palmer, comedian Johnny Carson, actor Paul Newman, El Santo, Lola Beltran but this [...]
Luxuriating in the Villa Ganz Guadalajara
October 10, 2009
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 colors, flavors, aromas of my native [...]
Perfume de Gardenias
September 30, 2009
This is going to be a very unsatisfactory but romantic story. Why unsatisfactory? Because I can’t name names. The main characters, and I don’t use the world loosely, are long time customers of mine, people of character, who are very private and they wouldn’t want their names used. At least, that’s my sense of them.
Soon [...]
Celebrate Mexico Now
September 13, 2009
Celebrate México Now is New York City’s first—and only—annual festival of contemporary Mexican art and culture. Encompassing cuisine, dance, film, literature, and music, Celebrate México Now provides New Yorkers with a glimpse of the most intriguing artists and ideas pouring out of Mexico today.
The Mexican Cultural Institute is sponsoring many exciting programs as is the [...]
Julia/Julie and Julia/Me and some sad goodbyes
August 31, 2009
Though I’d love to keep my story on Budd Schulberg up forever because I loved him so and want to honor him, it’s time to move on. There’s much too much going on in the food world. You can still find Budd’s story in the archives where it will live forever as will the [...]
