Moles: What exactly is a mole?

Moles: What exactly is a mole?

Photo Marissa Sanchez-Bastien Photo by Laurie Smith www.lauriesmithphoto.com Text from The Food and Life of Oaxaca The true stars of Mexican sauce cookery are main dish sauces like moles and pepianes and here it’s important to understand the philosophy of the...
Trip to Schlesinger Library: A Voyage to my Past

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...
El Paso Thank You

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...