There’s a conference today on tamales and atoles. Tamales, dumplings of ground corn (maize), usually enclosing a tasty little morsel, and usually wrapped in corn husks or banana leaves, have…
It was not for want of trying, I’m pretty sure. Instead it was for want of a suitable climate. Dry curing ham requires humid winters with temperatures that hover above…
El cerro (the hill) began a hundred yards or so above the street where I lived for ten years in the city of Guanajuato, capital of the state of Guanajuato. …
