The Clay Cooking Pots of Mexico
Just before I left Mexico, I picked up a lovely book, Barro y fuego: El arte de la alfarería en Oaxaca (Clay and Fire: The Art of Pottery in Oaxaca)…
Read moreEggs up, chicken up, beans up: trouble looms for food politics in Mexico
I was surprised several years ago in Mexico to discover that a kilo of eggs cost about the same as a kilo of tortillas, somewhere around a dollar for either.…
Read moreOff the Milking Stool: On Leaving Mexico
On the last day of May 2012, we left Mexico after fifteen happy years there, the first decade in Guanajuato in central Mexico, the last five in Mexico City. And…
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