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Throughout Mexico in many areas it is already so hot by late spring that one would prefer to laze around all day. The situation is different in the central highlands, where the climate is pleasant year-round. In the colonial city of Guanajuato, located at an …
It was the best taco I had ever eaten. At the small taqueria in San Cristóbal de las Casas, the only filling was cochinita pibil: a day’s worth of suckling pig meat braised with smoked habanero chilies and served from a huge stainless steel vat. …
On Easter Sunday, Judas dolls are traditionally blown up in San Miguel de Allende. A dozen or so papier-mâché figures, now representing real-life “traitors” from recent history, first dangle above the assembled crowd in the town’s main square before being detonated one by one. When …