Dining in Paris, October 19
While not exactly Proust’s Madeleine, two things can immediately transport me to Paris: the thick anise-flavored aperitif Ricard and a seafood plat or tower. I often order a Ricard in New York but it doesn’t taste the same when it is not served in...
Dining in Paris -October 17 and 18, 2017
Friends in the know gave me excellent recommendations as I planned my culinary adventure in France. My mission was to find affordable, woman and single diner-friendly restaurants where I could have memorable meals of exciting, well-prepared food. I succeeded...
Guanajuato – The City
I have a new love!! Or is it an old one revisited? I went to Guanajuato to see another dream fulfilled. I always wanted to be in a movie and I have a small singing role in Moronga, a black comedy that had its premiere at the Guanajuato Film Festival on July 26,...
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...
Zarela: Oaxaca 2014 in love again
Pedro, me and the view taken by www.lauriesmithphotos.com There are people who I can hardly wait to get off the telephone with, and others, whose company I enjoy immensely and I can never get enough of. So I came up with the perfect plan for my vacation this...
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.