Yucatan’s state government launches a food security program in Mérida’s incorporated areas known as comisarias. The program will offer nutritional support to 150,000 families, many of whom are struggling due to COVID-19 related job losses. Yucatán Gov. Mauricio Vila Dosal supervised as residents signed up for the government program, which offers each family a carton…
When a chef on a national TV show recently presented some unappetizing papadzules, the audience in Yucatán wasn’t having it. The traditional dish was prepared Tuesday by Chef Mariano Sandoval on the popular morning show “Venga la Alegría,” which is filmed in Mexico City. Users on Twitter ridiculed Chef Sandoval for what they considered…
Mérida is chosen — with Montreal and Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula — to spearhead a new initiative to reduce food waste. North America’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) estimates that every year the USA, Canada and Mexico waste a combined 168 million tons of food. The CEC campaign encourages education and offers materials through its…
About 20 out of Slow Food’s 60 or so vendors were missing from the Slow Food Market in Garcia Ginerés on Saturday. Instead, they had formed a second Slow Food market on the Prolongación. The vendors, who were not named, gave no notice and their absence took organizers by surprise, a letter from a board…
A community dining room built by renowned chef Massimo Bottura and his wife Lara Gilmore is finally open in Mérida. Held back eight months by the pandemic, their nonprofit organization Food for Soul is feeding the hungry in a refurbished Centro mansion on the corner of Calle 60 and 69. While Refettorio Mérida, as it…
Seye, Yucatan — Delicious salbutes with breaded shrimp, queso relleno, pulpo and carne asada can be found at today’s Salbut Festival, starting 5 p.m., in this smallish city southeast of the capital. This unique culinary event is reached from Merida via the Merida-Cancun highway at kilometer 29, about a half-hour drive. More than 30 exhibitors…
Merida’s first vegan convenience store, Solara, opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday at Casa del Sol.
Finding turkey and trimmings is a challenge here — but not as much as it used to be.
Visiting Mérida and some rural villages, an up-and-coming celebrity chef demonstrates some of Yucatán’s culinary traditions to illustrate a basic cooking principle.
The Thermomix, a do-it-all kitchen appliance that for years has been hugely popular abroad, is now for sale in Yucatán.
Mérida chef Roberto Solis has taken his Nectar magic to Atlanta, where diners are finally getting a first look — and taste — of his Yucatán-inspired cuisine.
One of the world’s top chefs will open a refettorio in Mérida to feed chef-prepared meals to those in need.
Memories of summers in Yucatán have fed a dream to share family recipes prepared a food truck in Los Angeles.
The second edition of the Club Sibarita festival will offer dinners, tastings, conferences and other activities to the White City’s most enthusiastic gastronomes.
Not limited to art and theater, Mérida Fest 2018 is a magnet for celebrity chefs.
Yucatecan cuisine should be the basis of an annual national celebration, a senator has decreed.
No surprises here on yet another list of the “five best restaurants in Mérida.”
Can a gathering of cooks from Kanasín break its own record for the largest pib party possible?
One of Mérida’s most famous proponents of Yucatecan gastronomy left her heart in Mexico while taking part in a Chicago food festival.
Packing ample samples of achiote and recado negro, the city’s director of tourism heads to Denmark next weekend to join an elite network of global gourmands.
In two years, a weekend festival celebrating this city’s famed breakfast dish attracted tourists from as far away as Mexico City.
A city’s gift to the culinary world is being celebrated again for the second edition of the Huevos Motuleños Fair.
A cultural fusion at the Hacienda Aké and the hotel Rosas y Xocolate drew on gastronomic techniques from Yucatán and some of the most recognized chefs in the world.
Eighteen of the best chefs in the world have come together to create Hokol Vuh, a gastronomic festival that has garnered international attention.
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