Onions make one weep, they do. Little green chillies make one’s fingers burn, and nose water, and skin sweat. All this happens when one chops them. Or munches on them. For great-aunt Tita, tears, floods of tears over onions began early in life. So says Laura Esquivel in her Like Water for Chocolate. Take care [...]
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Tita in Tears
Posted in books, food, mexico, tagged books, food, mexico on 14/05/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Leftwing Mexican
Posted in books, food, mexico on 29/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve mentioned the excellent The Uncomfortable Dead by Subcomandante Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo II elsewhere, and it reminds me that one is not always faced with haute cuisine. There are times in fiction – just as in life – when the food is down-market, rustic, and possibly not all that great. Furthermore, the following [...]
