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Tips on making tamales, for beginners and/or perfectionists

I’m going to be honest with you: the idea of making tamales from scratch used to scare the heck out of me. Even after I hosted my first tamalada in December 2009, I still felt like I had no idea what...

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Where to eat in Mexico City: Con Sabor a Tixtla

I stumbled on Con Sabor a Tixtla by chance. I’d been wandering around the Roma neighborhood, looking for a few new places to add to Eat Mexico’s Taco Tour, when I saw a chalkboard menu propped up on...

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An afternoon with Diana Kennedy at Mexico City’s UNAM

It seems like everything I’ve dreamed of doing in Mexico, Diana Kennedy has already done -- which makes sense, considering she arrived here in 1957. Kennedy has worked in a Mexican panadería. She has...

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The perfect gift for a Mexican-food lover

Last week over lunch at El Cardenal, one of the restaurant’s owners, Marcela Briz, stopped by our table. Dining with me were some fancy guests -- Penny, two chefs from the States and Ruth Alegria. So...

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A new Haitian restaurant in Mexico City

UPDATE: See the reader comments below. It appears this restaurant has closed. A few weeks ago, my friend David mentioned a new Haitian restaurant he’d heard about in Santa Maria la Ribera. I think I’d...

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