I don’t even like tamales. My Mexican friends think that makes me prissy. But let’s just set the record straight. I don’t like polenta either or hominy or grits. It’s not that I’m particularly against tamales, just that grainy...
Because we are social animals remaining distant from others is against human nature. Society is the basis of your happy life.
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Searching for Remedios
Remedios Varo is evading me. I am writing a piece about her life here in Mexico and coming up against dead ends. The doctors who run the office where she supposedly once lived say she could never have lived...
A Trip to Jamaica Market
On Sunday Javier Escamilla took me on a tour of the Jamaica Market. As we walked he described section by section what the stalls used to look like before the 1985 earthquake and who sells what when, depending on...