Dave Miller’s February 15th Mexico News Links…
Spring Break is coming and that means a rash of Mexico is a dangerous place articles. Here’s a pretty typical example. The world’s slowest traffic is found in… OAXACA! My […]
A Oaxacan Sig Alert… traffic is bad and it’s going to get worse!
The news is not good, at least for Oaxaca. Every time I opened Google News this week, my headlines tell me this… According to INRIX, Oaxaca has the slowest traffic in the world! How does a modern day city move past that type of world wide bad news? I’m not […]
Dave Miller’s February 1st News Links
Mercado Abastos in Mexico City has recently been recognized as a tourist destination of excellence by a tourist festival in Spain. Most interesting to me was the size of the […]
Dave Miller’s 5 Mezcals Everyone Needs to Experience…
The other day I had a group of people with me from the states here in Oaxaca. A couple of them wanted to try a few different mezcals, so off […]
Dave Miller’s January 15th Mexico News Links
Buy the best mezcal like a pro? Maybe… Anything that can help San Baltazar, Oaxaca, a place I’ve spent years working, is alright by me. Read Carlos Moreno’s story. Pretty nice list for […]
Ed Draves Samples… Almamezcalera, Destillados de Maguey
In August I had the pleasure to stop by and visit with my friend Erick Rodriguez in Mexico City. I first met Erick a few years back when he arrived at Wahaka Mezcal in San Dionesio Ocotepec one morning with Clayton Szczech of Experience Tequila in tow. What a great […]
Dining with Dave… Casa Azul in Buffalo, New York
First of all, Buffalo is not known as a mecca for Mexican food. I am frequently in that area and when I travel, I like to see how different cultures […]
“Wait, you’re about to sweep up my life!” Juchitán, Oaxaca reels after massive earthquake
They never saw it coming. September 7, 2018 was supposed to be just like most other days in the city of Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico . It had been […]
You Can Help Bring Clean Drinking Water to Oaxaca…
***Update***Update***Update***Update*** This morning we raised our goal to $13,000.00 so we could help out the town where Bricia Lopez and her family, of Guelaguetza Restaurant in Los Angeles, are working. […]
5 Mexican Spirits You Need to Experience… with Nick Zukin of Mi Mero Mole
Mexico has a much more diverse history of distilling spirits than most people realize, even tequila aficionados. [Here] I offer five of my favorites, each unique and among the very best booze of their kind in the world.
