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this is fascinating despite the dumb use of cyber and hacker.
Los Zetas kidnapped a member of Anonymous in Veracruz on October 6th. In retaliation, Anonymous threatened to publicize online the personal information of Los Zetas and their associates, from taxi drivers to high-ranking politicians, unless Los Zetas freed their abductee by November 5th.
Nixtamalization is 3.5 ka old and produces the most delicious tortillas. if you want to experience this rare process, head to tortilleria nixtamal in queens. they are the only place on the east coast still using this technique, and the results speak for themselves.
an inverted skyscraper below the zocalo in mexico city has got to be the most fantastic architecture design i have seen in some time.
the mexican mafia acts like a government: collecting taxes, enforcing property rights and adjudicating disputes.
as the MM grew in power it started to provide public goods, i.e. it became a kind of government. Thus, the MM protects taxpayers both in prison and on the street, it produces property rights by enforcing gang claims to territory and it adjudicates disputes, all to the extent that such actions increase tax revenue of course. The MM is so powerful that it often doesn’t even have to use its own enforcers; instead, the MM can issue what amounts to a letter of marque and reprisal, a signal that a non-taxpaying gang is no longer under its protection, and privateers will do the rest.
no fajitas.
no nachos.
no cute clay or adobe plates to match the cute clay or adobe decor.
crema fresca… not sour cream.
no strawberry-kiwi margaritas.
no fajitas.
no fancy menus with a history lesson on mexico.
no 7 layer dips.
no pillow-size burritos.
no tacky red, white, and green uniforms with a red sash around the waist.
did we mention no fajitas?
advice that probably holds everywhere.
1. Look for time-specific food. In San Miguel for instance, there is barbacoa from 8-10:00., carnitas from ~11-16:00, and wonderful chorizo after 20:00. In Mexico, if the food is available only part of the day, it’s almost always good. It’s for locals and there is no storage in these places so it’s also extremely fresh.
2. Often the best meals are served in places which have no names. In San Miguel the “brothers Bautista” run the best carnitas stands, but there is no sign and no marking. The stands are simply there on the side of the road, with some plastic tables and chairs, at a few places around town. Everyone in town knows about them.
3. Ask around with taxi drivers and be persistent. Ask the older taxi drivers. Throw away your guidebook, no matter which one you have.
4. Use breakfast and lunch for your best meals; dinner is an afterthought. Almost everywhere good is closed by 20:00 or often long before then. Always visit a place that closes by 13:00
5. Roadside restaurants, on the edges of towns or between towns, serve some of the best food in Mexico or anywhere else for that matter. Some of these restaurants even have names, though you can overlook that in the interests of eating well.
they ship without freezing the goods. highly recommended by tyler cowen. use TCowen30 as the discount code.
Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld.
paging harrison ford.
you can also satisfy your south of the border cravings in north Brooklyn, on a stretch of Manhattan Ave. in Greenpoint filled with Mexican and South American restaurants
Gregor J. Rothfuss 