I traditionally spend the month of May in Toronto. Which means, of course, that I miss the Cinco de Mayo festivities in San Miguel. Well, actually, I don’t. Not for the last three years anyway. You see I’m very lucky in that one of the best things about...
“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...
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....
“From aguacate to zapote and so many in between, there’s a tantalizing array of fruits available in Mexico year round. If you come from a place where you rely on imported fruit for a good part of the year, it’s heavenly to have access to this heart-smart sweetness,...
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...
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...
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