tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-636392 2012-01-21T10:10:00-06:00 Mexico: a culinary travelogue, an adventure for the palate, mind, and spirit. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c571453ef0162fe267b1c970d 2012-01-21T10:10:00-06:00 2012-01-21T11:55:00-06:00

Lovely young Agustina in her pink silk rebozo (long rectangular shawl). A friend recently gave me a copy of an old and anonymous Mexican poem, written in Spanish, in homage...

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Maestra Benedicta Alejo Vargas grinds cilantro and mint to prepare tzirita, a deliciously spicy botana (appetizer or snack) based on metate-ground chile seeds and various herbs. For me, the days...

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As usual, let's start with postre (dessert)! You might remember Mexico Cooks!' favorite saying: life is uncertain; eat dessert first. This best-ever orange and coconut flan was the Mexico Cooks!...

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In Mexico and other Latin American countries, women wear yellow underwear on New Year's Eve to bring good luck and wealth in the year to come. Red underwear indicates a...

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A Christmas tree may be the central focus of your home decoration during this joyous season of the Christian year. In most parts of Mexico, the Christmas tree is a...

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Traditional piñatas ready for sale decorate the door to the Hernández family's tiny taller (workshop) on Av. Lázaro Cárdenas in Morelia, Michoacán. Among clean ollas de barro (clay pots), plastic...

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Mexico City's iconic Ángel de la Independencia, nearly 43 meters high (that's 140 feet, for you who are metrically-challenged) is known all over the Distrito Federal simply as 'El Ángel'....

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Creative, generous, and kind, Rose Calderone--occasionally of Chicago, currently of Morelia--is the founding mother at La Casona Rosa, her unique small hotel located at Galeana #274, Centro Histórico, Morelia, Michoacán....

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The Travel+Leisure Mexico public relations team emailed Mexico Cooks! not long ago with a surprise invitation to attend its 2011 Gourmet Awards. The awards event, which a restauranteur friend called...

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Sr. Brandon Milmo, director of Casa Madero Winery (Parras, Coahuila, Mexico), chef Patricia Quintana, and don Pedro Poncelis, Mexico's premier sommelier, at Restaurante Izote de Patricia Quintana. Rain! As Mexico...

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