In two weeks I travel to Mexico City for an academic conference. I look forward to the variety of foods that street venders sell. Most of all I look forward to exploring the city’s bakeries. I spent several summers living in Guadalajara, Mexico in the 1990s learning Spanish and exploring the cuisine. My most vivid memory was a small bakery on a cobble stone street in down town Guadalajara that sold miniature pecan pie like treats. They were muffin like with the most splendid texture of crust like dough with a pecan filling. They were so delicious! But I’ve never seen a similar treat sold any place else. While in Mexico City I will go on a hunt for them. The story reminds me of a description of bakeries in Toluca, Mexico that Langston Hughes gives in his autobiography The Big Sea. He writes that at supper time, “the sidewalks would be deserted. The shops would begin to pull down their zinc shutters, and everybody would go home through the cool mountain darkness to a hot [meal] of steaming chocolate, tamales, goat’s cheese, and buns. And maybe some of the sticky and very sweet cakes you had seen in the shop window on the Portales” where one saw “enormous layer cakes, dripping with syrupy icings and candied fruits.” Look for my upcoming post on cakes this coming Saturday. Also I will be taking photos and writing about Mexican style cakes and other foods during my time in Mexico City.
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