Latin America
Photo: Fast Food in Samana, Dominican Republic
Text & Photo: Julie Schwietert Collazo **
Soundtrack for 6 nights in a lonely hotel room
Text & Photo: Julie Schwietert Collazo ** Hotel rooms make me lonely, even the loveliest ones. I can go strong all day, but when I return to my hotel room, devoid of anything other than my bags to say “This is your place,” well, I get sad, and fast. You may know that I have … Continue reading
Chef Enrique Farjeat on Mexico’s UNESCO inscription
Text & Photos: Julie Schwietert Collazo ** [Note: This is an article I wrote in late 2010 for a major US newspaper's food section. You can read the backstory of this article on my writing and editing blog, Cuaderno Inedito.] By almost all accounts—media and “man on the street”—2010 was a two steps forward, two … Continue reading
Pan American Games: Opening Day
Text & Photos: Julie Schwietert Collazo ** “Que tal Guadalajara?” I ask the taxi driver as we leave the airport en route to Del Carmen Concept Hotel, where I’ll be staying for the next three nights. I was last here in 2008, updating a guide to Guadalajara for Gayot, and I’m wondering how the city … Continue reading
Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
Text & Photos: Julie Schwietert Collazo ** Everything I’ve read to date about the Museo Soumaya has left me dissatisfied… not the facts, which are what they are (a museum housing 66,000 or so pieces of art acquired by Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man), but the assessment of the collection (“tragic”); Slim’s style of … Continue reading