Mexico’s southeastern Yucatan Peninsula has always been distinguished for its native Maya culture, isolation with the rest of the country and incredibly delicious cuisine, a cultural fusion of indigenous, Spanish, Caribbean, African, French, Dutch and even Lebanese dishes
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It is with the goal of trying to recreate and revitalize the delicious royal banquets of pre-Hispania that chefs and culinary historians Oscar Segundo and Xrysw Ruelas set out to investigate traditional ingredients and cooking styles employed across Mesoamerica before the arrival of Hernán Cortés
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The Bajío gastronomic festival at the Cantina Palacios includes an array of traditional Bajío gastronomic specialties, carefully curated and supervised by master chef Cynthia Martínez, culinary director of La Conspiración de 1809 restaurant in Morelia, Michoacán
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Like a lion caged in his own body and tethered to his wheelchair, covered by a Mexican blanket, Paz inquired with anguish as to the fate of his beloved nation
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Twelve Mexico City municipalities — Álvaro Obregón, Azcapotzalco, Benito Juárez, Cuajimalpa, Coyoacán, Cuauhtémoc, Iztapalapa, Iztacalco, Miguel Hidalgo, Magdalena Contreras, Tlapan and Venustiano Carranza — will have a decrease in water supply for the next four weeks, the capital’s water system announced Saturday, Nov. 12. Due to a technical failure on Friday, Nov. 11, in one of the
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By MARK LORENZANA In the last year, complaints for the crime of extortion increased in most of the boroughs in Mexico City. In 2020 there were 54 complaints filed at the Cuauhtémoc Mayor’s Office, but by 2021 the complaints grew to 73. According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), from January to
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It was a night to remember, and long-remembered it will be. The gala opening of Palacio de Hierro’s stunning new $140 million Coyoacán luxury department store in Mexico City’s freshly remodeled Mítikah shopping mall on Thursday, Sept. 22, not only wowed with its fabulous five-story property, but also with the black-tie reception that no doubt constituted the
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By MARK LORENZANA On Monday, Aug. 15, 12 municipalities in Mexico City experienced a reduction in the supply of drinking water due to the low water levels in the storage dams of the Cutzamala System aqueduct. Representatives from the Mexico City Water System (Sacmex) explained early Monday that the water pressure in the capital would be decreased from the usual
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS John Ackerman, an American law professor who decided to switch out his U.S. passport for a Mexican substitute and join the leftist bandwagon of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) own personal vision of pseudo-democracy, has just gotten a taste of what AMLO’s Brave New World of dictatorial socialism is really about. After having been rejected
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Despite initial claims by National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party leader Mario Delgado to the contrary, the first national internal elections of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s leftist party on Saturday, July 30, and Sunday, July 31, were marred by claims of ballot stuffing, ballot box burnings and outright acts of violence, with videos of numerous of
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