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Food
Why It's So Hard to Open a Modern Mexican Restaurant in the US
We even get shit from our Mexican customers because they give us their whole “why am I going to pay $12 for one of your tostadas topped with raw uni and clams when I could just drive across the border and pay $4 for the exact same one?” If they only...
Javier Plascencia
10.20.16
Food
Why Some Mexican Wine Smells Like Raw Meat
The most notable characteristic of Baja wines is that most are really big and powerful. A lot of people attribute salinity to wines down there, and consequently a leathery, very intense, raw meat, salty flavor and aroma.
J.M. Woody van Horn
10.8.15
Entertainment
A Mechanical Sculpture Reframes the Legacy of Mexican Migrant Workers
An outlawed farming tool from the 1940s serves as the building block for rewriting the history of Mexican migrants in the US.
Reuben Torres
10.7.15