La Ceiba in Puebla
Perspective:
Dateline - La Ceiba, Puebla, Mexico
May 1, 1998
"La Ceiba" (or maybe Lázaro Cárdenas or Tito Hernández or Villa Avila)
La Ceiba is a small town in the state of ...
read more
Tlaxco in Tlaxcala, Mexico
Perspective:
Dateline -Tlaxco Tlaxcala Mexico
Monday, April 13, l998
TLAXCO
7 A.M. The sky is something of a steel gray, like before the sun comes up or on dark cloudy days before a s...
read more
Flag Day in a Mexican school: Day of the abanderamiento
I'm sitting behind a small desk in the English department of a Ciudad Juárez politécnico - a sort of combination senior vocational high school cum junior college - across the Rio Grande from E...
read more
Puerto Escondido's romantic Hotel Santa Fe
Your cab deposits you outside the arched entrance to the pastel stucco hotel, and as you pass through its main portal, you are transported to another dimension, another time, to a village in Spain perh...
read more
From father to son: On top of the world in Mata Ortiz
"When I walked into the museum and saw my ceramic sitting there beside the plaque for the Galardón, I was astonished. I had had no idea I had been awarded the Grand Prize." José Quezada sat with his ...
read more
In the parish church of San Andres
The graceful 18th century Parroquia de San Andrés, is not only Ajijic's chief landmark, but also the hub around which village life revolves. It is the focal point for those important milestones that b...
read more
Tequisquiapan, Queretaro: A delightful spa town
This article describes "a delightful little spa town too few foreign travelers have discovered", to quote the 1979 edition of Fodor's Guide to Mexico. Astonishingly, this description is as appropriate today as it was then.
read moreLearning the ropes in Mata Ortiz
Juan Mata Ortíz is a small village of potters, farmers and cowboys in Northern Chihuahua. About 30 years ago, an unschooled artistic genius, Juan Quezada, taught himself how to make earthenware jars i...
read more
The cuisine of Puebla, cradle of corn
The creative blending of diverse ingredients is the hallmark of Mexican cooking, and in the state of Puebla it is a passion. Everywhere there is talk of food. People give detailed accounts of what they...
read more
Stewed pork with chipotle on tostadas: Tinga poblana
Tinga is a basically a stewed pork dish, cooked with a chipotle sauce and most commonly served on tostadas. A chipotle is a dried jalapeño with a wonderful, smokey flavor. The ...
read more
