CERES Conference on Energy and Sustainable Development

The reason for my trip to Puebla last week was to participate, as a late addition, in a conference entitled Energía para el Desarolla Sustentable en América del Norte, or Energy for Sustainable Development in North America.  The conference was hosted by CERES, the Centro de Estudios de Desarollo Regional y Estratégicos (Center for Regional and [...]

Obama Engaging Mexico on Climate Change?

Ok, so the title is a little misleading, but the White House sent out a press release on Friday that the Obama administration is seeking to meet with and engage representatives from “major economies,” including Mexico, in preparation for the next major climate summit (December 2009, Copenhagen).  You can read about it on the NY [...]

Mexico 2 – Costa Rica 0

On Saturday evening, Mexico played Costa Rica in a qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City and, by the good graces of a few friends, I was able to go.  The near-capacity crowd, mostly clad in the green of Mexico was incredibly loud, louder than any crowd I’ve ever [...]

Tacos Arabes

Puebla is renown in Mexico for it’s cuisine, la comida poblana, which includes it’s own take on tacos: los tacos árabes.  A taco árabe is a flour tortilla with pork roasted on a vertical spit, as with a taco al pastor.  Tacos árabes are larger than the al pastor variants in Mexico City and use a different [...]

Nieve

Mexican ice cream takes many forms, one of which is the nieve (or, sometimes nieve oaxaqueño or one of a dozen other similar names).  Nieve, literally “ice,” is an ultra-smooth — think snow — soft-frozen dessert, served in a variety of fruit flavors, often from a small push cart.  As the cart is chilled by a bath of [...]

In Pictures: Puebla, Mexico

Puebla is a “town” of nearly 1.5 million people, the 4th largest in Mexico, and almost exactly two hours by bus from the Districto Federal.  Though the local poblanos may take more pride in their cuisine, the first thing that tourists are likely to notice is the number of churches… and the second is the [...]

(Poor) Road Signage in Mexico

Road signage in Mexico is relatively poor.  Not only are signs often incomplete or missing, but at other times, there may be too many signs or they are place in ways that confuse drivers.  I saw this over the weekend on Avenida Revolución….
Of course, that the sign for Mixcoac is almost completely covered is a [...]

Chilpancingo Food Stalls

One of the better places to hunt for street food is the collection of food stalls, or puestos, around the Chilpancingo metro station.  The area right around the station, at Insurgentes Sur and Baja California, is dominated by magazine, music, and sunglass sellers, but just a block away, west along Calle Chilpancingo or north on [...]

Mexico to promote forest conservation and management to combat climate change

It was reported today that Mexico will promote a policy of forest conservation and management at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) meeting next Monday, 16 March 2009.  CONAFOR, the Comisión Nacional Forestal apparently stated that Mexico feels that conservation and sustainable forest management are “key” to mitigating climate change and a “cornerstone” of [...]

Machitos

One of the many tacos fillings available are machitos, which, depending on who you talk to, are either bull testicles or the small intestine of a sheep. One place to try them, chopped and cooked very well done, is at Los Parados, a long established taquería in Roma Sur, just west of Escandón.
Machitos have [...]