This soft-centred chocolate cake recipe was inspired by our visit to the Villa Vanilla Spice Farm. Seeing fresh vanilla and cocoa beans was a real treat. Seeing the flowers that lead to the formation of a cacao pod and seeing the cocoa beans out drying in the sun was amazing. It was so inspirational that … Read more
This authentic sopa de tortilla recipe or tortilla soup recipe makes the most delicious tortilla soup we’ve ever tried. It’s a combination of a tortilla soup I’ve been making for many years, since our first trip to Mexico in the Nineties, and a tortilla soup I recently learnt from the lovely Marilau at her cooking … Read more
A Mexican cooking class in San Miguel de Allende was high on our to-do list in line with the experiential travel goals of our yearlong grand tour of the world, promoting slow travel, local travel and experiential travel. We’d been cooking Mexican food since our first trip to Mexico in the 1990s. But we’d never … Read more
Specializing in cool, kitsch and quirky Mexicana – t-shirts, bags, jewellery, art, and interior design products — everything in Ave María, Giovanna Canela Miranda’s hip store in San Miguel de Allende, is ‘hecho en Mexico’ or ‘made in Mexico’, by Mexicans. That means that Giovanna has designed the products herself and commissioned Mexican artists and … Read more
Mexico City’s markets aren’t just for shopping, eating and drinking, as much fun as all of that is in Mexico City, but as a microcosm of a society they also offer a fantastic insight into the culture and everyday life of a place, no more so than in the Mexican capital. Here’s our guide to … Read more