The Time of the Rains: A Mexican Prose Poem
Don Bruno in his milpa (corn, beans and squash) On the August 20, 2002, Don Bruno stood in my garden in Guanajuato, Mexico and delivered this wonderful prose poem. Rushing…
Read moreA Conference on Tamales and Atoles: All You Ever Wanted to Know about Them
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…
Read more22 Uses for the “Commons” in Guanajuato, Mexico
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. …
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