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Mexico Life

Brian Overcast

Authentic Mexico from someone who calls it home.

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The Strange New Face of the 50 Peso Bill

“What is this strange-looking animal that is smiling at me on the new 50 peso bill?” I thought to myself as I looked through my wallet for one of the old bills with the Michoacan motif to show an American visitor.

Although it has gills, it...

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The Biggest Surprise Is Not the Monarchs

In the summer of 1988, my wife Mireya and I were back in Mexico for the first time as a married couple. Neither one of us will ever forget a moment we had one evening in downtown Morelia. It had just rained and the lights that illuminated t...

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Authentic Homemade Cooking in Any Mexican Town

“I feel like I’m back in my mom’s kitchen,” my wife sighed after her first spoonful of sopa aguada, a simple but tasty soup with pieces of thin pasta that every Mexican child has grown up on (also called sopa de fideos).

We were in a cocin...

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The Origin of Vanilla and the Forgotten Bee

Vanilla has been given an unfair rap as plain. Imagine yourself in an ice cream shop with 60 flavors and ordering vanilla. Boring! Which is why in English, synonyms for vanilla include: simple, unadorned, unimaginative.

For those of you...

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The Art of Travel and Edward Hopper

How to enjoy the in between

“Few seconds in life are more releasing than those in which a plane ascends to the sky.”

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    I married into Mexico, have lived here for 25+ years, and delight in sharing insights about this fascinating and oft-misunderstood country.

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