Curves and cracks

After seven months crisscrossing Mexico from north to south and east to west, we have officially decided to settle down in... Tequisquiapan! I've visited dozens of beautiful towns and pueblos. Each one captivated me in its own way and left a mark on my heart. We were searching for "the perfect place"... and they all were, in their own way, but Tequis won the gold medal. Why here? Because it is simply the Mexican version of paradise: a Pueblo Mágico with cobblestone streets li

Today is Palm Sunday, the day the Lord made his triumphant entry into Jerusalem. Mexico is a deeply Christian country, where religious holidays punctuate daily life and imbue the culture with genuine fervor. This day brings back a wave of sweet and powerful emotions: childhood memories spent with Grandma Rose. This extraordinary woman illuminated my early years with so much love and tenderness. She lived very close to me and was so much more than a grandmother: she was my ref

Mexicans don't eat corn, they WORSHIP it... for 7000 years credit: Grok The Aztec gods: “What are we going to create Man with? Clay? No, too fragile. Mud? Too dirty. A rib? Seriously… Okay, we'll make him with corn dough, it's more malleable.” And there you have it, Man was born: 60% tortilla, 40% religion. credit: Grok But masa (dough made from ground corn) doesn't just magically appear! To transform corn into edible gold, there's nixtamalization—a big word for an ancient te