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Arabic cuisine peppers Guadalajara

The advent of Middle Easterners to Mexico, along with Middle Eastern cooking of course, is a long and interesting story, which you are not going to read here, except to note that it came to Mexico on waves of mostly Lebanese Christians driven across the seas by political instability in past centuries.


Breakfast with an exalted reputation

Although Guadalajara’s Boulangerie Central has been open long enough to receive the city’s highest rating on Trip Advisor for its breakfasts, for some reason I had never been there until this week.