Thanksgiving in Mexico City > Mexican Food

Calabacín caramelizado con kéfir y foie. I think. I sometimes wonder why these meals don't stick so much in my mind as, say, the chicken and polenta that Dan Constantinescu's grandma made for me in Teasc; or Joyce Hsiao's mom's soft shell crab and smoked chicken...or even the rice birds in fermented tofu sauce at a tiny restaurant in Si Mao (Yunnan) with Mary Viv in 1986. Or Elaine Graham's squid. Elaine lived across the street, in Stockton.

Maybe it's because I didn't know what I was eating, even at the time. Proust knew it was a damn cookie, after all. This is different, this is like an eclipse, you know, all these people say you can remember each eclipse and it has a different look like a face, etc., I don't even remember them at sundown the same day.

Anyway, Mr. Arzak is a first class food stylist and you should go there.
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