Oaxaca Mexican Cooking Class: Five Hours of ‘Muy Rico’ Education

In Mexico, ‘mal de puerco’ is how you say food coma, which translates to ‘the curse of the pig.’ That wasn’t quite right for the nine happily overstuffed participants in my vegetarian cooking class from Etnofood in Oaxaca City on Saturday. We shopped for, cooked and ate many things, but pig wasn’t one of them. …

Accidental Chef in the Wild West

PORTAL, AZ – As if we were all Wild West outlaws lowering our bandanas for the first time, my neighbors in tiny Portal, Arizona and I are finally seeing one another’s faces. Never having seen their mouths, I made many of them extravagant Thanksgiving and December holiday dinners, alongside my friend Zola, who’s pushing 90…

A Keweenaw Red Rocks?

Aaron Rogers envisions an amphitheater carved in stone & big-name bands at East Bluff Bike Park.

Keweenaw Diaries Part 1: Trapped in Paradise

Eagle Harbor, MI – I am trapped in a paradise, immobilized next to an animated orange fire, within earshot of the storm just now whistling over Lake Superior; I am be-blanketed on the couch of a log cabin far more spectacular than my budget for this trip could ever approach.  On the downside, my car…