Stuffed Suckling Pig with Isthmian Fruit Picadillo (Cochinito con picadillo de frutas)
This is not an easy dish to make but it is a great dish. Rather than being difficult, it is time-consuming. It’s the kind of dish you make on a rainy or snowy day when you want a project such as the when we participated in Island Pig or was it Pig Island? We...
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,...
Trip to Schlesinger Library: A Voyage to my Past
At the Schlesinger Library. Many thanks Susan Hutcheon, Kathryn Jacob, Marylene Altieri, and to Neftali Duran. Yesterday, I did one or two, or maybe even four things I’ve been dying to do but, for reasons unknown to me, I had not done. In 2013, Harvard’s...
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.