My Mexican Kitchen

There's some noteworthy restaurants around the leaf-shade Parque Júarez (usually called "El Llano", where lovers smooch and O...

The Cooking Class La Casa de Los Sabores Cooking School is a class act. They are very well organized yet have an approachable, easy to like,...

Friday, February 16, we went into Pátzcuaro to shop, and as I was feeling hungry, I stopped at the Birrería Don Prisci's at the esplana...

Susan was coming down with a cold. Various remedies were applied and taken. But two days of bed rest proved most efficacious... As there wer...

We slept well, and took the Metro from Insurgentes Station to San Lázaro Station, which resurges next to TAPO (Terminal de Autobuses para ...

The winter passes relatively benignly here in the Pátzcuaro, Michoacán region. But January brings some cold nights and cool days, and we sou...

We had a few neighbors over for a little lunch. We made what is among our favorite style of food while living here in México: Southern U.S. ...

After a fairly long lapse, we were ready for a visit to our favorite restaurant in the Pátzcuaro area, la Marisquería "La Güera". ...

We were in Pátzcuaro's alluring Mercado Soriana yesterday morning, picking up a few necessities (eg, 12 bottle cartons of Cerveza Nocheb...

...of Pátzcuaro's mercado In an effort to revitalize my sense of culinary derring do, seasoned with a dash of risk, we once again went...

We live in a region of rotating population. The Michoacanos go to the " otro lado ", that is, the United States, to work and earn ...

A little while ago, I had a bad dream in which I was invited to eat at Peter Luger's Steakhouse , in Brooklyn, NY. It was my first visi...

From late last winter, this post has been slowly aging in its cyber-cellar, until now it is ready for publication. Yesterday, near Pátzcuar...

We have a bottle of locally purchased salad dressing. (No, we didn't buy it. Our departing neighbor gave it to us.) It's labeled, ...

After many years, I think I've finally overcome my fascination with menudo, and the thrall in which it held me. Let's face it. To e...

The terrible truth is that I am a coffee addict. I recently had my suspicions confirmed when I took and online quiz. (See below) My years I...