Fruits of the Oven: Pastries
Today I’m posting a piece, “Letter from Mexico: Fruits of the Oven” that I wrote back in 2001 about a visit to a traditional bakery that made frutas de horno (pastries)…
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About a hundred years ago Romualdo García was the photographer of choice in Guanajuato [GWAN-A-WHA-TOE], a wealthy mining town on the high central plateau of Mexico. As these images…
Read moreWorried That Big Food Is Deciding What You Eat?
Take heart then, as I do, from this little book that I picked up in a small secondhand store in the south of Mexico City. It was published in…
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