Last Friday Mario and I had more than one invitation to lunch with friends, but I selfishly asked for some alone time. Between the trip to Oaxaca and a late night at the office on Thursday, we had missed several date nights and I felt like I needed some time for the two of us. …
I recently came across this article on the internet about a student research team at the Colegio de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos de Hidalgo who have found a way to purify water using mucilage from nopal, a type of cactus that grows throughout the Americas and is particularly common in Mexico. My first thought was,…
This afternoon I found myself with free time near the Alameda – a big park in the center of Mexico City – and I decided to visit the Franz Mayer Museum. I’ve always remembered it as one of my favorites from the summer I spent as an intern here, but it had been years since I…
Mario and I travelled to Oaxaca with my mother-in-law over Easter weekend. It’s usually a five-ish hour drive from Mexico City, or an hour flight, but last weekend it took much longer. Mario’s family is from Oaxaca, so we go there often – or at least when we manage to find time to escape the…
The Mexican comida is the meal worth building your day around. A personal account of long lunches in Mexico City, and the seafood restaurant in Narvarte that perfected the cucarachas.
I am boarding a new Dreamliner at JFK’s Terminal 1 – the international terminal. It is early fall, and I think the weather outside is neither too cold nor too hot, and the sun is bright. I could feel it this morning through the windows in the waiting area at BWI – Baltimore’s Thurgood Marshall…
Café de Tacuba, founded in 1912 in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico, is the breakfast I recommend to everyone who visits — for the tamales de salsa verde, the café con leche ceremony, the estudiantina, and the building itself.