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The secret to delicious salsa is a verb
Hungry? Click here for the recipes! Salsa—it’s the essential component of any Mexican meal. Although the literal English translation of the word salsa is simply “sauce,” in Mexico, salsa is generally understood to refer to a sauce seasoned with aromatics and chile. While the…
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The American Dream
I took this photo on the south side of Chicago back in 2004, just months before I moved to Mexico. When I found this unexpected message, I decided that it was a prescient omen—that the universe was allaying my fears and letting me know that I was making the right decision. I…
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Searching for traditional Mexican flavors? Try my recipe for tortilla soup.
Here’s everything you need to make tortilla soup—well, everything except the toppings. The tea towel showing Australian flora and fauna might seem like an odd choice of backdrop, but it’s the one I typically take to the market to carry my bundle of fresh tortillas. This is my…
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Mexico City braces for COVID-19
Public baths in Mexico City were among the first wave of businesses to close due to the arrival of COVID-19. The hastily posted sign on this establishment states that it will remain shuttered until further notice. The grinning skeleton on the security shutters was painted months…
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19S
This piece of street art in my neighbourhood perfectly captured the collective emotional state of Mexico City after the quake. It has since been painted over, but the effects of our trauma linger. It happened two years ago, but it’s fresh enough that I still jump when I hear a…
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Happy birthday Señor Nacho!
Today, Google honors the inventor of nachos with a Google Doodle I don’t pay too much attention to Google Doodles. Don’t get me wrong, they’re certainly charming, but my need to search for something else generally takes precedence over interacting with the illustration on my…
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How to cure a clay pot
I found this beauty in Real del Monte, Hidalgo I just bought my first ever cazuela de barro —also known as a clay pot. Even though I didn’t grow up in a family that used these cooking vessels, I’d wanted one for many years but never bought one because I’d been scared off by…
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How organized criminals caused a tortilla shortage
Source: store.somexican.com My previous post was about crime and my penultimate post was about tortillas, so it’s probably fitting that this post is about crime and tortillas. Today, El Universal reported that the city of Celaya, Guanajuato is experiencing a tortilla shortage as…
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El Paso
Since I moved to Mexico in 2004, there have been 80 mass shootings in the United States, which have killed a total of 677 people . In Mexico—despite widespread violence of our own—there have been zero mass shootings at schools, festivals or Walmarts. I have nothing to say that…
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Children of the corn: Maizajo helps to save real tortillas
A basket of native Mexican corn “I don’t like corn tortillas.” My mom said this to me the other week while we spoke on the phone. They’re unexpected words, coming as they did from the mouth of a Mexican-American woman born and raised in California, but if you’ve ever tasted the…
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Welcome to my neighborhood
Cats on a warm tin roof on Nezahualcóyotl street, Mexico City. Eight years ago, I moved to the corner of Nezahualcóyotl and Isabel la Católica in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico. It’s a poetic name for an intersection, suggesting an embrace between 15th century contemporaries…