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Afro-Mexican Cooking Class with Raquel Torres Cerdan- 4 recipes
All photos by Carlos Baizabal – Raquel objected to this photo because the bracelets are not hygienic. So don’t wear them when you slice malanga, and especially when you fry it. Those studs will get really hot. This... (Continue reading)
El Pedimento – New Year’s Eve in Mitla and Juquila, Oaxaca
Curiously of all the items I posted in the last year, this piece 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... (Continue reading)
Oaxaca Chorizo (Chorizo Oaxaqueno)
Photo Laurie Smith but I don’t remember if the original was vertical which would make a big difference to my comadre. (Recipe: The Food and Life of Oaxaca, Macmillan 1997) My friend, Pedro Luis de Aguinaga pointed out that my... (Continue reading)
Hotel Casa Real del Cafe, Coatepec, Veracruz
This year I have traveled a lot and stayed in many hotels in Peru, California, and two states in Mexico, Queretaro and Veracruz, and know exactly what makes a great hotel, for me at least. I would put... (Continue reading)
The night of the radishes in Oaxaca-La noche de los rabanos
Photo from my book The Food and Life of Oaxaca. This is the way people say hello in Teotitlan del Valle. Image from Snapping Lists Okay, so I’m a little dramatic and lacking in energy but when... (Continue reading)
Dining in Mexico City – Paxia
Everyone says Mexico is booming except Mexicans living there. Still if you go to markets in Mexico City, such as my newly discovered San Juan Exotico ,where chefs shop they are busy and the restaurants I was able to visit... (Continue reading)
Food crafts of Xico, Veracruz, Pueblo Magico
My first taste of Xico was a crispy buñuelo, a fried “flour tortilla” very lightly dusted with fine granulated sugar and topped with chicken that had first been cooked with blackberry liqueur and then sauteed with garlic and onion and... (Continue reading)
Peruvian Dried Potato Stew
Want to try something with completely different textures and flavor combinations. It’ll either blow your mind or not. For our Peruvian dinner last night we cooked with recipes from Saveur Peruvian Cooking section except for this traditional dried... (Continue reading)
Peanut Snack from Oaxaca
Recipe from The Food and Life of Oaxaca, Every afternoon,vendors walk around the Zocalo selling these delicious peanuts with unpeeled garlic and dried chiles. There they use hotter-than-hell chiltepin chiles, tiny balls of fire but I just brought one... (Continue reading)
Breakfast in Xico, Veracruz, Mexico
Jan, the catrina veracruzana, me and Manolo One of the things that I learned on this trip is that Veracruzans, as in other parts of Mexico, breakfast is still the most popular meal to eat out. At 8:00 AM... (Continue reading)
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