Mexican fish pacos: Tacos de pescado
Perhaps the most famous Baja street snack, and certainly one of the most frequent reader requests, fish tacos differ a bit from place to place, but are always served with the same basic selection of ga...
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Cooking on the Sea of Cortez: Culinary adventures in Baja California
Mexico's Sea of Cortez, also known by the less lyrical name Gulf of California, supports more marine life than any other body of water on earth. It is no surprise, therefore, that divers, fishermen, an...
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Mexican fish cocktail: Ceviche
Originally from Peru, where it is generally made with corbina, ceviche is a seafood cocktail served anyplace in Mexico where fresh fish is available. It has been "mexicanized" by the addition of ingred...
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Mexican seven seas fish: Pescado siete mares
Mexican seven seas fish is a specialty of La Cenaduría, a lovely old adobe restaurant in San Jose del Cabo. It combines fresh red snapper filets, a mild salsa roja, and just enough manchego cheese to ...
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The cuisine of Sinaloa: Cenadurias in Mazatlan serve caldo and conversation
During the day visitors come down the long entranceway that gives this restaurant its name, asking if it is open. Despite the sign at the entrance to El Tunel, showing the opening time 5:30 p.m. ...
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All saints adrift in Todos Santos
Todos Santos is a place people disappear to. Something about the layout -- the way the single two-lane highway through town can take in casual visitors at one end and dispense with them at the other en...
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Living/Crossing Tijuana/San Diego
Mexico Connect Forum Discussion Threads
Posted by alex in TJ on Mayo 02, 2000
HOUSING: There are two nice areas of Tijuana. Playas de Tijuana is the little strip between the En...
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Easy living in Mazatlan, the Pearl of the Pacific
Mazatlán, (pronounced “maz-it-LAWN”, with the stress on the last syllable), means “place of the deer” in the Nahuatl (Aztec) language,. It is a city of around half a million people, located on a long, flat stretch of the Pacific coast of Mexico, just to the south of the Tropic of Cancer and due east of the tip of the Baja peninsula. It is here that the cool waters of the deep Pacific meet those of the warm, shallow Gulf of California. You might think of Mazatlán as having one foot in the tropics and the other in the dryer, dessert climate to the north.
read moreA dream in Baja California Sur
On a surf-pounded beach in Baja California Sur, I sat with my family of five, in a circle of campers around a crackling bonfire. The flickering flames cast each storyteller’s face in turn with a rudd...
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From Baja to the Mexican mainland by ferry
Last night I met Karen Greenbury in person. I first met her on the Internet after she quit her secretarial job in Alberta, Canada and was preparing to take a one-year sabbatical in Mexico. Karen is for...
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Almost an Island: Travels in Baja California by Bruce Berger
Bruce Berger is an excellent guide to the Baja. He’s been going there since the mid '60s, having driven the length of the peninsula at least three times when that meant travelling more than 1,000 kilometers of single lane dirt road. One could drive for a day and meet only one other car. And you would never dream of leaving without taking plenty of food, water and gasoline plus whatever extras and spare parts you might need to fix auto problems along the way.
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Puerto Vallarta versus Cabo Beaches
Mexico Connect Forum Discussion Threads
Posted by Tim Bowen on July 12, 1999
I am going on my honeymoon in 30 days, and I was told by someone who just returned that the beaches at Puerto Vallarta w...
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My dog Sombra in the Tijuana jail
We had purchased Sombra with an eye to breeding her, and when her time came, we located a fine Golden Retriever named Lombard. A retired couple who settled on the hill above ours at La Bufadora owned h...
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My dog Sombra and the Mexican Federales
As our dear Golden Retriever, Mi Sombra, was spending most of her formative years in Baja, we found it prudent that she learn her commands in English and in Spanish. This was never more evident than th...
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Headin' South to Guadalajara from Nogales
Charlie G. Posted by Charlie G. on January 13, 1999
Headin' South from Nogales (an update)
My son and I crossed the border at Nogales yesterday (1/11) and were pleasantly surprised with the eff...
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Outside Mazatlán: Mexico's real Sierra Madre
The Sierra Madre! The very name conjures up images of movie sets, mine shafts and majestic, rugged mountains, perhaps with cowboys riding through. Nowhere in Mexico is it quite so easy to experience an...
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Mexico's Copper Canyon
For an unusual winter break, how about a Mexican train ride? The Reader's Digest called Mexico's famous Copper Canyon railroad trip, "the most dramatic train ride in the western hemisphere". Even that ...
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Mañana at the lighthouse: Bahia la Ventana in Baja California Sur
Mañana is a Mexican word that I struggle to understand. I continue to learn more about this word every time that I travel in Mexico. One of my earliest lessons was learned at the lighthouse that prote...
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Dia de las Madres: Mother's Day in Mexico
In May of 1992, we were still in process of finishing up the remodel of our trailer/ cabaña, to turn it into a real house. Over the previous six months the trailer had been dismantled, two bedro...
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Mexico: a visit to Patzcuaro, Tzintzuntzan, Tequila and Mazatlan
Two of my life-long friends from California have been visiting with me the past two weeks. This is Marcy's third visit. It's Nancy's first. I'm always nervous about first-time visitors. Will they see M...
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Trailer tales from La Bufadora, Baja California
Anyone you talk to in Baja with a roof over their head has a story or two to go with the roof. Jack Smith of Los Angeles Times, joyfully chronicled his home building adventures in his book, God and Mr....
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Guided tour at the La Paz Museum
During our Mexican travels, it was often said to us by veteran travelers to Mexico that one travels to the Baja for the "beaches" and that one goes to mainland Mexico for the "culture". That may be jus...
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