Since moving to Mexico City I have fallen dangerously in love with the motion, radiance, and utter chaos that is this my adoptive hometown. The city is a bubbling stew of stories and I am determined to taste them all.
My work has been published in wide-ranging publications both online and in print and I have spent countless hours “researching” every restaurant and street food stand in my neighborhood to complete my local’s guide, Mexico City Streets: La Roma, a treatise on one of Mexico City’s most fascinating neighborhoods.
I am the associate editor of Luxurylatinamerica.com and the current author of the Louis Vuitton Mexico City guide. I also wrote the Nurall Mexico City Digital Nomad guide, The Food and Travel guide to Baja Sur, and fact checked the upcoming Eater guide to Mexico City. I am a regular contributor to Eater, Mexico News Daily, Perceptive Travel, and HotelScoop.com, and have also contributed to the New York Times Travel Section, Virtuoso, Westways Magazine, Hemispheres Magazine, Lonely Planet, San Diego Magazine, Shondaland, and others. Check out my online portfolio to see all of my writing.
The main focus of my work is food, spirits and travel and I have been to almost every single state in Mexico tasting, visiting, and writing about local food scenes, regional cuisine, food production, farmers and spirit makers, and more. Whether it’s female mezcaleras in Oaxaca or Mexico City’s cafe chinos, I like to tell stories from an on-the-ground perspective that really puts humans at the center of the story.
While my focus is on Mexico, I have traveled to almost every country in the Americas as well, reporting for a variety of publications.
In 2016 I started my own tour company, Mexico City Streets, to meet the demand of clients who reached out after my book was published wanting a tour of Roma. Since then my repertoire has expanded to include tours to the city’s markets, taco stands, and out to the enchanting southern canals where I work with a family who has an stunning organic farm they have been creating over the same past decade. As the tours have evolved so has my understanding of the city, and I have come to appreciate it even more than I did when I landed in CDMX 14 years ago.
Coming to Mexico?
I have a wide variety of tours I offer including an Evening Taco Crawl, A tour of the Merced Market, A day in the southern canals, and a daytime street food extravaganza, just to name a few. Click here to see the descriptions and send me an email for booking a tour with me.
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