Mexico City 16

Posted on February 9, 2003 in Photos Vacations

  

The guidebook we carried suggested that you plan to eat your way through Chapulpetec Park. The same advice could be given for the Zocalo, the Alameda, or the streets around the shrine of Guadalupe: in each place, vendors sold delicious foodstuffs like fresh fruit spears, paper sacks of roast nuts, dried fruits saturated in chili powder, chips served in plastic cones, and pastries for which we did not know the name in either English or Spanish. I bought a circle made of spiraled, crispy tubing. The vendor anointed it with a little lemon and dusted it with chili powdert: it tasted like a snack that Montezuma might have served Cortez before the latter betrayed his evil intentions.

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Writing these entries about Mexico City is beginning to feel like the rest of my life….but it has not tired me.

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