Verdolaga. The world’s most under-appreciated salad green.

Verdolaga. The world’s most under-appreciated salad green.

It’s difficult for me to remember anything my father and I had in common during my early teen years. Except perhaps one thing that united us. We both disliked almost all foods that came in any shade of green. Yet, on almost every day of my adolescence, my mother...
And the morel of this story is…

And the morel of this story is…

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...
You bet your sweet patootie they’re good.

You bet your sweet patootie they’re good.

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...
Chocolate pudding grows on trees in Mexico.

Chocolate pudding grows on trees in Mexico.

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...