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Burritos Unwrapped
by Gustavo Arellano The drive from Anaheim, California, to Jerez, Zacatecas, seemed to me like a long, unnecessary detour. But nearly every Christmas break during my childhood in the 1980s, my parents...
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Soulful Mexican Soups
by Patricia Quintana There are so many ways to get to know Mexico, but for me, the country is best understood through its soups. We're ancient: Every home cook here has a recipe for caldo Xóchitl con...
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Queen of the Yucatan
by Mauricio Velázquez de León Just outside Mérida, the capital of the Yucatán, I drive toward the home of my friend, Margarita "Wiggie" Andrews. I exit the car and enter her sun-flooded kitchen, which...
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Day of the Dead
by Shane Mitchell On the street leading toward the Church of San Andrés Apóstol in the village of Mixquic, an hour southeast of downtown Mexico City, vendors tempted a festive crowd with the...
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Saucy Dish
One amazing place to eat in Mexico City is actually in a department store. Sanborns reminds me of Woolworth's, and in fact, it has American roots; the chain grew out of a Mexico City pharmacy opened...
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Breakfast at the Border
by Mandoacute;nica de la Torre Over breakfast in Tijuana in 2010, the two sides of me came face to face. I was there, a Mexican-American poet visiting from Brooklyn, with the novelist Cristina Rivera...
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Tortillas in Mexico
by Roberto Santibaandntilde;ez The tortillerÃa near our home in Mexico City was dark and tiny, with a machine that spat fresh tortillas out onto a conveyor belt, which carried the hot, puffy disks to...
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Sweet Mercy
by James Oseland You see them outside churches all over Mexico-sisters from local convents selling home-baked sweets, a sort of eggnog spiked with rum or brandy called rompope, and assorted spiritual...
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Death in The Afternoon
by Juan Pablo Villalobos This memory spans all of my life. We could place it in 1980, at the baptism of one of my cousins. Or in 1995, at the wedding of another cousin. Or even in 2007, at my first...
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The Pride of Puebla
by Betsy Andrews On a recent trip to Puebla, I paid a visit to a storefront mill called a molino. There I met Luz Maria Leonor Gonzalez, a lively mother of eight grown children who told me to call her...
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On The Backs of Crabs
by Carmen Boullosa One of my first memories is of the sound of crabs being crushed by the wheels of our moving car. I was less than five years old. It was late at night. For three days we had been...
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In Full Bloom
by Beth Kracklauer I'm told things are going to get a little wild later on. But the day begins quietly, under a palm-thatched palapa at the edge of a lagoon. It's a restaurant called Las Tres...
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Introducing the SAVEUR Mexico Issue
From the refined restaurants of Mexico City to the country's regional cooking, from the foods of the desert to those of the sea, the flavors of Mexico are some of the freshest, boldest, and most...
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Eating in Mexico: The Lay of the Land
by Rick Bayless For all its complexity, Mexican food is primordial-it speaks on a gut level. It's no wonder: Carried in its DNA are the slow-simmered flavors of the indigenous kitchen, which was...
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Postcard: Picking Blueberries in New Paltz, New York
One of my best memories of growing up in New Jersey is stumbling across a patch of wild blueberries while on a class trip to the Delaware Water Gap. I remember devouring fistfuls of the small, sweet...
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Postcard: A Mexican Feast at the Carlyle Hotel
by Eesha Sardesai and Sanaandeuml; Lemoine We're at the iconic Carlyle Hotel, where Chef Carlos Hannon and his team from Rosewood Hotel in San Miguel de Allende have spent the week cooking sumptuous...
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6 Things You Can Only Get in Philadelphia
by Helen Rosner It was raining buckets when SAVEUR senior editor Gabriella Gershenson and I rolled into Philadelphia for a whirlwind 36-hour, 8-restaurant, million-calorie tour of the East Coast's...
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Introducing Room Service
One of the best things about working at SAVEUR is that we get to travel a lot, which has meant, among other things, staying at innumerable hotels over the years, many of which have surprised and...
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VIDEO: Making Tortillas in Puebla
The women of the Tlapaltotoli Daniel family, natives of Cholula, a town near Puebla, are masters of mole, but they're also skilled in the deceptively simple art of tortilla-making. Working together,...
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Viva Cantina
by Michael Parker-Stainback "Be sure to go into every cantina you can," a wise local friend advised when I moved to Mexico City in 2007. There are bars and lounges, but a neighborhood cantina is...
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