Making Shrimp Empanadas in La Viga, Mexico’s Wholesale Fish Market

Basket of shrimp empanadas, 5 for $30 pesos (US$2.20) Saturday saw a group of three friends in La Viga, Mexico’s wholesale market, claimed to be the biggest in Latin America…

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Beef head tacos/Tacos de cabeza

  Delicious beef head tacos from El Torito (the little bull). On right. Macisa.  Solid meat Trompa.  Muzzle Cachete. The meaty bits below the eyes and between the ears and…

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The day I discovered k’nafeh: Mexican Lebanese cuisine

We were taking a day off from computers to stroll through the old colonial town of Coyoacán, now just part of Mexico City. We’d taken our shoes to the mender’s…

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