El Pedimento – New Year’s Eve in Mitla and Juquila, Oaxaca
Curiously of all the items I posted in the last year, this piece on El Pedimento, got the most hits . I imagine that its popularity is rooted in magic or wishful thinking. It would be wonderful if our wishes became our realities though there’s that...
Days of the Dead
I think if I could choose one event to dramatize the spirit of Mexican religion, it would be the Day of the Dead, or actually Days — Los Dias de los Muertos, November l and 2. To begin with, I assure you that this name does not sound in the least ghoulish or...
Barney Rosset Another Giant Is Gone
When Jamie Gillis, my long-time companion met Barney Rosset it was as if he had met God and he would always sit at his hero’s feet. As founder and editor of Grove Press, Barney almost single-highhandedly did away with censorship in the United States by...
Preserving Diversity through Corn Whiskey with Yira Vallejo- Notes
Prior to our recording, we asked Yira to send us some information on her current projects. She blew our mind! SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES 1. I worked with my husband, Jonathan Barbieri, to established the 1st lending library in San Luis...
If You Really Want to Cook Like Me
Thanks to trending on Twitter many, many new users have signed up for my website so I will be reposting some of the most popular articles like this one from my book Zarela’s Veracruz (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) If you really want to cook like me… It’s like...
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.