La Costeñita

11/05/2021

"It’s a time to connect with family and loved ones."

10/31/2021

Vogue viajó a Oaxaca y visitó cuatro hogares para conocer las costumbres del Día de Mu***os con las que reciben a sus difuntos tras un largo viaje desde el Mictlán.

07/18/2021

06/25/2021

Anthony Bourdain wrote:

"Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities. We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal, and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican people—we sure employ a lot of them. Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes, and look after our children. As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy—the restaurant business as we know it—in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers. Some, of course, like to claim that Mexicans are “stealing American jobs.” But in two decades as a chef and employer, I never had ONE American kid walk in my door and apply for a dishwashing job, a porter’s position—or even a job as a prep cook. Mexicans do much of the work in this country that Americans, probably, simply won’t do.

We love Mexican drugs. Maybe not you personally, but “we”, as a nation, certainly consume titanic amounts of them—and go to extraordinary lengths and expense to acquire them. We love Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, Mexican films.

So, why don’t we love Mexico?

We throw up our hands and shrug at what happens and what is happening just across the border. Maybe we are embarrassed. Mexico, after all, has always been there for us, to service our darkest needs and desires. Whether it’s dress up like fools and get passed-out drunk and sunburned on spring break in Cancun, throw pesos at st*****rs in Tijuana, or get toasted on Mexican drugs, we are seldom on our best behavior in Mexico. They have seen many of us at our worst. They know our darkest desires.

In the service of our appetites, we spend billions and billions of dollars each year on Mexican drugs—while at the same time spending billions and billions more trying to prevent those drugs from reaching us. The effect on our society is everywhere to be seen. Whether it’s kids nodding off and overdosing in small town Vermont, gang violence in L.A., burned out neighborhoods in Detroit—it’s there to see. What we don’t see, however, haven’t really noticed, and don’t seem to much care about, is the 80,000 dead in Mexico, just in the past few years—mostly innocent victims. Eighty thousand families who’ve been touched directly by the so-called “War On Drugs”.

Mexico. Our brother from another mother. A country, with whom, like it or not, we are inexorably, deeply involved, in a close but often uncomfortable embrace. Look at it. It’s beautiful. It has some of the most ravishingly beautiful beaches on earth. Mountains, desert, jungle. Beautiful colonial architecture, a tragic, elegant, violent, ludicrous, heroic, lamentable, heartbreaking history. Mexican wine country rivals Tuscany for gorgeousness. Its archeological sites—the remnants of great empires, unrivaled anywhere. And as much as we think we know and love it, we have barely scratched the surface of what Mexican food really is. It is NOT melted cheese over tortilla chips. It is not simple, or easy. It is not simply “bro food” at halftime. It is in fact, old—older even than the great cuisines of Europe, and often deeply complex, refined, subtle, and sophisticated. A true mole sauce, for instance, can take DAYS to make, a balance of freshly (always fresh) ingredients painstakingly prepared by hand. It could be, should be, one of the most exciting cuisines on the planet, if we paid attention. The old school cooks of Oaxaca make some of the more difficult and nuanced sauces in gastronomy. And some of the new generation—many of whom have trained in the kitchens of America and Europe—have returned home to take Mexican food to new and thrilling heights.

It’s a country I feel particularly attached to and grateful for. In nearly 30 years of cooking professionally, just about every time I walked into a new kitchen, it was a Mexican guy who looked after me, had my back, showed me what was what, and was there—and on the case—when the cooks like me, with backgrounds like mine, ran away to go skiing or surfing or simply flaked. I have been fortunate to track where some of those cooks come from, to go back home with them. To small towns populated mostly by women—where in the evening, families gather at the town’s phone kiosk, waiting for calls from their husbands, sons and brothers who have left to work in our kitchens in the cities of the North. I have been fortunate enough to see where that affinity for cooking comes from, to experience moms and grandmothers preparing many delicious things, with pride and real love, passing that food made by hand from their hands to mine.

In years of making television in Mexico, it’s one of the places we, as a crew, are happiest when the day’s work is over. We’ll gather around a street stall and order soft tacos with fresh, bright, delicious salsas, drink cold Mexican beer, sip smoky mezcals, and listen with moist eyes to sentimental songs from street musicians. We will look around and remark, for the hundredth time, what an extraordinary place this is.

The received wisdom is that Mexico will never change. That is hopelessly corrupt, from top to bottom. That it is useless to resist—to care, to hope for a happier future. But there are heroes out there who refuse to go along. On this episode of “Parts Unknown,” we meet a few of them. People who are standing up against overwhelming odds, demanding accountability, demanding change—at great, even horrifying personal cost."

05/18/2021

Andrea Meza es la Miss Universo 2021. Originaria de Chihuahua, se ha dedicado al modelaje y ha obtenido el mayor reconocimiento de este medio. ¡Feliciades!

05/01/2021

04/04/2021

Happy Easter!!

02/17/2021

02/17/2021

La belleza de Mil Islas parece sacada de un sueño. Te contamos sobre este destino para los amantes del ecoturismo que se ha mantenido casi nadie conoce.

02/12/2021

Mi Oaxaca Hermoso!!

Ya sea que decidas ir por su exquisita gastronomía o espectacular oferta cultural, aquí te dejamos algunos de los hoteles boutique en Oaxaca más bonitos. Harán inolvidable tu visita.

02/11/2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Grever

María Grever (14 September 1885 – 15 December 1951) was the first female Mexican composer to achieve international acclaim.[1] She is best known for the song "What A Difference A Day Makes" (originally "Cuando vuelva a tu lado"), which was popularized by Dinah Washington and has been covered by n...

01/06/2021

Ya estan Listas las Roscas de Reyes!!

01/06/2021

Ordene su Rosca de Reyes!!

11/07/2020

Oaxaca se consolida como un destino de excelencia, y la Ciudad de Oaxaca, sigue dando muestra de su inigualable belleza, en esta ocasión reconocida con el primer lugar en la categoría "Mexico & Central America's Leading City Break Destination 2020", de los .

11/04/2020

Experience Hillsborough: Issue 2020-08 Saturday, October 31, 2020 Hillsborough Economic and Business Development Commission (EBDC) Recognizes National Women’s Small Business Month On October 14th, 20

10/02/2020

Check out our 2020 Hillsborough Restaurant Week Menu !!

09/29/2020

Join us for Hillsborough's Restaurant Week!! Starts today and ends Sunday October 4th. 🥳

History of Hillsborough New Jersey www.hillsborough-nj.org 908 369-4313 Hillsborough is a collection of small villages, each of which has left its own imprin...

09/29/2020

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08/07/2020

05/22/2020

05/05/2020

Sopes

05/05/2020

Tacos

04/24/2020

Mole enchiladas

04/12/2020

Tacos !

04/03/2020

The restaurant industry lost roughly $25 billion in sales and more than three million jobs as the coronavirus pandemic swept the US.

03/31/2020

Chefs internacionales convinieron nombrar a los tacos al pastor como el mejor platillo del mundo, por encima del sushi o la pizza.

03/20/2020