La Merced is traditionally known for two things: the market and the prostitutes. But in this neighborhood, one of the city’s oldest, there is a pedestrian walkway where office workers come to eat lunch or take naps under the...
My top five afternoon hang-outs in La Roma
1. Río de Janeiro plaza This park in la Roma Norte has lots more to offer than just staring at David’s exquisitely sculpted derrière. On sunny days the plaza sparkles with light and on gloomy ones is one of...
A few pints with Mujeres Catadores de Mexico
A bunch of chicks hanging out, drinking beer, who doesn’t love that? I for one was stoked to meet up with the girls from Mujeres Catadores de Mexico last Saturday for a little beer-making and some delicious brew. The...
Meeting Monsiváis among the shelves
“We call this the ‘alley of intimacy’,” says Ruben León, the librarian at the Carlos Monsiváis library in the Cuidadela, “because on one side is Monsiváis’ hidden secret and the other his public passion.” And there we stand in...
Mexico City Bicycle Film Festival
Last night the Galería Prophaeta On Alvaro Obregon in the Roma hosted the art exhibit JoyRide as part of the Mexico City Bicycle Film Festival this weekend. The Bicycle Film Fest has been a global phenomena since 2001. That...
Two of my favorite things combined?!
NPR just reported that Kraft is going to replace the petroleum-based dyes that make Mac n Cheese so bright orange with achiote… the dye used in cochinita pibil. What? A match made in heaven? AND… I finally saw achiote...
Today’s Mini Metro Soundtrack
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Christmas in Belize
If it’s a balmy 80 degrees outside at the El Secreto resort, it’s at least 100 degrees in the kitchen. I can feel the sweat pouring down the small of my back, but the kitchen staff, in their uniforms,...
Throwing Pots in Belize
On Thursday we visited the San Antonio Womens’ Group in San Antonio, Belize, a few miles from the Hidden Valley Inn, a 7,200-acre resort in the middle of the Belizean pine forest. The chickens crept forward searching for a...