There I was checking out Soltribe, for the first time since their big move to Mercado Sano. A brave decision by them I thought. Could they survive where so many have failed? It’s a good-looking space but, with the room almost empty at lunch time, the jury, I think, is...
I’d eaten sweet potatoes for a lot of years. Mostly smothered in butter and sprinkled with salt as the side to a roast of pork. Then I came to San Miguel de Allende and my tongue got all twisted around. In Mexico, the locals eat sweet potatoes as dessert. I thought...
I was extremely jealous this week. I was at Chinaberry Farm, just outside of San Miguel de Allende, chatting to owner Deborah Richards, and I kept thinking “I wish I was doing what she’s doing”. Deborah Richards is growing vegetables, some of the best vegetables I’ve...
Chocolate pudding was the first dessert I ever remember making. I was about 12 years old and there was this exciting new product in my life. It was called instant pudding…not fast, not quick, but instant. It was instant bliss for a 12-year-old mainly because it...
You’ll rarely ever see them in a supermarket. And when you do, they’re almost always frozen and imported. Yet this is the country where they had their beginnings. Meleagris gallopavo, the wild turkey, is native to Mexico. And when the Spanish arrived here, turkeys had...
I spent my holidays on the Yucatan Peninsula and, as on all of my travels, food was a focus. There was one regional specialty though that might come as a surprise to you. It’s a locally celebrated cheese called queso de bola, a cheese that you might better know as...
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