Rachel Laudan

Should you just happen to be in Guanajuato on 27th September, there will be a mole festival in the delightful Plaza San Fernando. MN$ 100 to get in, book signing by Patricia Quintana, tastings of different moles, music, wine tastings, and artesania. Roughly 12-5.

For ages, no one thought much of the pre-hispanic cultures of Guanajuato. Compared to the Mayas or the Olmecs or the Aztecs and the spectacular remains they left, there just didn’t seem to be much in this state about 200 miles north of Mexico City. Well, if you don’t look, you won’t find. But, after [...]

“Sooner or later change had to come,” says José Carlos Capel, in an article in El País. The tasty Mexican culinary repertoire, one of the most varied in the world, degraded by the Tex-Mex image and thoroughly branded by its more ordinary versions, has joined the modern way thanks to the efforts of a new [...]