There’s something magical about food, fire, and cooking. Actually, primeval describes it better. After all, without food, I wouldn’t be sitting here staring at a computer screen and neither would you. There’d be only a barren wasteland, a moonscape of craters and crevices, instead of the Earth we love. Food is the magical bottom line of life. I’ve thought that for a long time. As a twenty-year-old student, I once stood on a street corner outside Mexico City’s colossal 5514-stall […]

Categories: Food writing, Mexico, Photography • Tags: Chocolat, Epiphanies, La Merced Market, Like Water for Chocolate, Magical realism, Mexico City, Saint Brighid, Zao Jun