My girlfriend is eating the honey and achiote glazed short rib with jicama, chile serrano and sorrel slices and melon. I’m trying the turkey steak with hoja de santa pesto on top of sweet potato puree and pickled carrots....
Mexico City Day Trips: Puebla
We didn’t get lost. The dog may have gotten sick and shit in the car and it may have rained almost the whole way home and I may have eaten so many M&Ms that I gave myself a stomach...
Happy Labor Day
This morning we saw these four in the Río de Janiero park. Some members of a band called the Oaxaca brothers within a quartet that they just formed this morning. If you can get past the kid yelling at...
Mornings in the Medellín
I can’t think of any U.S. market like the ones in Mexico except Pike Place with its stands selling trinkets and fish mongers putting on a show for the tourists. I always say that the U.S. is so obsessed...
Troncones Beach Life
This was our second time staying at Casas Gregorio on Troncones beach in Zihuatanejo – two luxuriously simple beach front houses where you can make dinner looking at the sea. Despite weird natural phenomenon like a lunar eclipse and...
Tickling the Ivories (well, wood) with Toca Conmigo
At four am on random mornings the past week or so the neighbors of Rio de Jainero Plaza have been treated to a piano recital outside their bedroom windows. Not everyone appreciates this phantom of the opera performance, but...
Upcoming April Events in Mexico City
Here are just a few upcoming events in April as I build my regular calendar, click on the comments above to add more to my list. Outdoor Movies all month @ the Cineteca Nacional April 1 to 6 –...
Noche de Museos at El Chopo
I must once again wax poetic about Noche de Museos here in Mexico City. Like lots of similar programs around the world,it’s a monthly event when museums around the city stay open late, offer free or discounted entry, guided...
Fundación Jumex in Polanco
I finally made it to the Jumex Foundation Museum over the weekend and while I still think that the building is ugly as sin from the outside, the curation and interior design of the space rocks. James Lee Byars:...