23 Feb 2018 8 Comments
in Eating Out, On the Road Tags: Abastos market, Casa Oaxaca, chapulines, Del Maguey, La Biznaga, Mexican cooking, Mexico, mole, Oaxaca, Tlayuda
Oaxaca, they say, is the culinary capital of Mexico. I was eager to put this to the test.
I am still digesting Mexico City tacos when we arrive and check into our hotel. But my pal Mike rouses me from a brief respite on my bed that could’ve easily turned into an evening in, and we are soon walking the beautiful historic streets of the old center of Oaxaca city. More
26 Nov 2016 13 Comments
in Food, Humor, Recipes Tags: Anthony Bourdain, chapulines, Del Maguey, grasshoppers, Mexican cuisine, mole, Nicolas Cage, Oaxaca, Thanksgiving
I had just finished my last post about my pal Mike and his wife Bridget harassing me from Oaxaca with their photos and videos of delicious meals, when they returned — bearing gifts!
There was a lovely and colorful dishtowel, a jar of black mole paste which to this cook is as good as its weight in gold, and there was a small jar of chapulines — roasted grasshoppers.
Chapulines
On the adventurous eater scale of 1 to 10, I consider myself about a 7. I’m no Anthony Bourdain. But I’ve recently been venturing more deeply into the euphemistically named world of “variety” meats, have sampled the slimiest offerings the world’s oceans put forth, and am a fan of such culinary curiosities as Japanese fermented natto and the stinking durian. There’s not a lot I won’t try, at least once. But one taxonomic class I have steadfastly resisted ingesting is that of the insect. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 