Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you’ll feed him for a lifetime. Show a man where to buy fish and he won’t have to spend the rest of his life in a rowboat drinking beer. I rarely eat tilapia. It’s not that I don’t like the...
It’s difficult for me to remember anything my father and I had in common during my early teen years. Except perhaps one thing that united us. We both disliked almost all foods that came in any shade of green. Yet, on almost every day of my adolescence, my mother...
It was Susan Knight York who alerted me and there’s no one who knows more about where to find the best restaurant values in San Miguel de Allende than Susan York. Perhaps I shouldn’t say restaurant though because many of the town’s best bargains aren’t found in bricks...
There I was checking out Soltribe, for the first time since their big move to Mercado Sano. A brave decision by them I thought. Could they survive where so many have failed? It’s a good-looking space but, with the room almost empty at lunch time, the jury, I think, is...
I’d eaten sweet potatoes for a lot of years. Mostly smothered in butter and sprinkled with salt as the side to a roast of pork. Then I came to San Miguel de Allende and my tongue got all twisted around. In Mexico, the locals eat sweet potatoes as dessert. I thought...
I was extremely jealous this week. I was at Chinaberry Farm, just outside of San Miguel de Allende, chatting to owner Deborah Richards, and I kept thinking “I wish I was doing what she’s doing”. Deborah Richards is growing vegetables, some of the best vegetables I’ve...
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