The Empty Cupboard
His pantry held two kilos of chocolate, two kilos of coffee, two bottles of mezcal. The chocolate ground with almonds, cinnamon, and sugar and pressed…
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All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Tires
Learning a language is fun because the complexities of languages are essentially limitless. Learning a language can be frustrating for the same reason. Recently, learning…
What in the World is a Tinaco? (Apartment Hunting in Oaxaca de Juarez)
No super-hot landladies, no horrifying cesspits to generate hardcore traveler cred, no impromptu parties, no death-defying escapes. Right up until the word tinaco was uttered,…
How Pig Cheese Shook My Faith in Mexican Food
The first time I saw it, I didn’t believe it. The second time I saw it, I tried to deny it — but the cart…
Pie in the Sky (or, The Girl in the Market)
I don’t know her name, but she works at the restaurant in the neighborhood market where I eat breakfast three or four times a week.…
Monsters in Our Midst
They came without warning. We used to talk all the time how if we had known they were coming the different things we would have…
Emiliano Zapata’s Eyes
One hundred and two years after his death, Emiliano Zapata’s eyes stare out at me from a mural on a wall in Oaxaca de Juarez.…