Blackberries or Moras
Bret Thorn wrote an article on blackberries for Nations Restaurant News and posted it on his Facebook profile. Of course no Mexican recipes were included because no one associates blackberries with Mexican cooking but they are very much used in both the cooking of...“Bad girl turns good” or why Mary Magdalene is so popular.
This weekend my dear friend Antonia, choreographer, yoga master and healer is putting on a show based on Mary Magdalene, the fallen woman who mended he ways and was declared a saint. It was quite a performance with sacred chants, dance and very much unlike the...Ixtapan de la Sal
I was around 16 years old when my parents first took us to the spa at Ixtapan de la Sal in the State of Mexico. It is not to far from Mexico City and about 2 hours from Toluca where we ate longaniza verde, a green sausage that is the specialty of the area, at one of...Chile Limon
Mexicans will eat anything with lime and chile –mangoes, potato chips, popcorn, jicama, apples, oranges, even persimmons and the famous esquites (corn kernels)–you name it. It is an addictive combination that originally consisted of squeezing a lime on...
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.