San Miguel de Allende
Many friends and other people I know are in San Miguel de Allende now and people are curious and asking questions, so I am reposting this. It was dusk in San Miguel Allende and traffic was stopped by a cheerful policeman at an intersection near the fancy hotel zone in...
Julie Sahni’s Chicken Kabuli
Julie Sahni’s Chicken Kabuli People are always surprised to learn that I don’t eat Mexican food all the time. I, in fact, seldom eat full Mexican meals at home. I regularly have huevos con chorizo (scrambled egg with homemade chorizo), a quick quesadilla, add poblanos...
Hearts of Palm Salad for Palm Sunday
The Sunday before Easter is Palm Sunday. It is a joyous day that celebrates the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem; the roads were covered with palm fronds. This begat many traditions: In Chamula, Chiapas, for example, the entry of the church is strewn with...
Pork Crackling Salad (Ensalada de chicharron)
Now that people eat lardo and pork belly, commercial chicharrones (pork cracklings) seem positively low fat. This salad is always very popular at my parties. Pork Crackling Salad (Ensalada de chicharron) People like to pick out the cracklings from this Pork Crackling...
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.