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The National University of Mexico (and Its Food)

Quite a good article in the New York Times on UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where we spend a good bit of our time.
Saturday Morning Theater seen from Azul y Oro, UNAM
What it omits to mention is that you can eat well there. Ricardo Muñoz’s café, Azul y Oro, serves some of [...]

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Thai Cream Crackers in Guanajuato

This comes smack in the category, “you know it’s a global world when . . .” So the local supermarket is having a promotion of Thai food products. Thai!
Now Thailand is a favorite honeymoon destination for well-to-do young Mexicans. And Jade de León, the fast food Cantonese place in the food court in [...]

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Learning to Cook, Mexico 1900

Every once in a while someone says something and it just rattles around in your head.  That happened a few days ago with my friend M-E.  “You know,” she said, “When my grandmother was fifteen and the family was thinking about her marriage, she went to study cooking in Mexico City for two months.”
Grandmother came [...]

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