A San Miguel breakfast for people who don’t eat breakfast.

A San Miguel breakfast for people who don’t eat breakfast.

“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” Where did that line from? I can’t count the number of people who’ve used it on me. All because Don Day doesn’t usually eat breakfast. It just doesn’t make sense. I mean how could...
A four course lunch. For less than five bucks. Really.

A four course lunch. For less than five bucks. Really.

Now I hate that I buy in pesos but still think in dollars. But I do. So my apologies for talking in dollars when I talk about a bargain. But today, after I had an 85 peso lunch and arrived home, I had to go into Yahoo Finance and check what the tab was in US dollars....
Grille Torres. Nice shrimp. Nice salmon. Nice guy.

Grille Torres. Nice shrimp. Nice salmon. Nice guy.

You’re walking down the street, way out on the fringes of San Rafael, a Colonia in San Miguel de Allende where you’ve never had lunch in your life, and there, peering out from behind the trunk of a laurel tree, you see a sign. “Check the...
The nomenclature ain’t good. But the sandwich sure is.

The nomenclature ain’t good. But the sandwich sure is.

OK, let’s get this out of the way right off the top. This ain’t your mother’s porchetta. Not if you were a kid who comes from an Italian family in Hartford or Philadelphia or on the Jersey shore. Or a kid like me who was raised with Italian kids in...
“I’ll have what Moctezuma’s having.”

“I’ll have what Moctezuma’s having.”

The Aztec diet included a variety of fish and wild game: various fowl, pocket gophers, green iguanas, axolotls (a type of water salamander), a type of crayfish called an acocil, and a great variety of insects, larvae and insect eggs. They also domesticated turkeys,...