Mexico and its Food as Poor and Rural
This is a series on the links between visions of Mexico and Mexicans and interpretations of Mexican food. The first three were prompted by events I attended in Austin, Texas.…
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About a hundred years ago Romualdo García was the photographer of choice in Guanajuato [GWAN-A-WHA-TOE], a wealthy mining town on the high central plateau of Mexico. As these images…
Read moreThe Islamic Contribution to Mexican Cuisine
When Mexico’s leading writer, Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz, arrived in New Delhi in 1962 to take up his post as ambassador to India, he quickly ran across a culinary…
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