04 Nov 2014 13 Comments
in Pork, Recipes, Video Tags: Dia de los Muertos, holidays, James Joyce, Loteria, Mexican cooking, Mexico, mole, Oaxaca, Pork, The Dead
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.” —James Joyce, “The Dead”
As I’ve confessed to in the past, I like holidays — particularly other people’s holidays. Our neighbors to the south, Mexico, for example.
02 Aug 2011 5 Comments
in Eating Out, Recipes Tags: Fairfax, Jimmy Shaw, Lotería Grill, Loteria, Mexican, Mexico City, Original Farmer's Market, pepitas, plato Botanero, queso fundido, Tim Burton
Los Angeles is one of the world’s top destinations for Mexican food, second only to Mexico City. And in this city of extraordinary Mexican dining from taco trucks to camerones stands to upscale nouvelle restaurants, the very best may be Lotería Grill.
Sunday morning of July 4th weekend. As families converged on the coast from every corner of the Los Angeles basin and beyond to frolic in the Pacific, we went the opposite direction: east. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 