The Mija Chronicles

An update from Mija, three years later

Lesley Tellez — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:30:09 +0000

I didn’t mean to take a three-year hiatus from blogging. But, as it turns out, being a decent wife and partner, having a baby, publishing a cookbook, writing freelance food articles, and being CEO of a growing food tourism business are a little too much for one woman—even me, the woman who thrives on doing...

A Taco Crawl of Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Lesley Tellez — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 14:45:56 +0000

When I began testing recipes for my cookbook, lots of people asked whether I could find the right Mexican ingredients in New York. When I said yes, they said, “Are you buying them in Sunset Park?” I didn’t know Sunset Park, a neighborhood in southwest Brooklyn, south of Red Hook. I had been buying my...

On Cinco de Mayo: 10 things to love about Poblano food

Lesley Tellez — Tue, 05 May 2015 13:18:15 +0000

Puebla is perhaps the only place in Mexico that celebrates Cinco de Mayo. The day honors the Mexican Army’s victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. For this Cinco de Mayo, I wanted to share more about the food in Puebla, which is some of the best in Mexico. All of...

Eat Mexico the cookbook, now available for pre-order

Lesley Tellez — Fri, 01 May 2015 23:02:45 +0000

My Mexico City cookbook — the project that sprung partially from this blog, and my food adventures and tours in the city — is now available for pre-order! You can find Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City’s Streets, Markets and Fondas on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Powell’s. It’ll be released officially at the end...

Meet my newest creation: my son, Tomás

Lesley Tellez — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:12:48 +0000

For the past six to eight months I’ve been working on finishing my Mexico City cookbook, which is finally complete. (More on that shortly.) But the biggest news of all is… I had a baby! Tomás was born two months ago. So far motherhood has been challenging, exhausting and, at the beginning, terrifying — who...