Dispatches
Where I am, what's cooking, and what's interesting.
Sept 2026
Aug 2026I popped into the Secretaría de Educación Pública to see the Diego Rivera murals. I expected a handful. Instead, there were hundreds. A whole world through Diego's eyes.
Aug 2026What I loved most were the ordinary things. The objects of everyday life, carefully chosen and arranged by someone with an extraordinary eye for color, shape and style.
Aug 2026Now that I am older, and Aunt Mimsy has passed away, I realize how special these photos are, both as a family archive and as works of art
Aug 2026There are museums you visit for the art, and then there are museums where the building itself is half the story
Aug 2026We decided to spend a day wandering around Centro Histórico, with input, and thankfully a few deviations from our AI overlords.
Aug 2026
Aug 2026
Aug 2026It wasn't just beautiful. It was everything I want in a dessert.
Aug 2026I love Coyoacán. It’s one of my favorite neighborhoods in Mexico City.
May 2026Sometimes the way I like to eat is a progression — a drink under the lanterns at Hotel San Fernando, tuna on the street at Koku, then a seat at the bar at Plonk.
Mar 2026The last island we visited and the one that stayed with me most — flamingos behind the beach, turtles at Los Túneles, and a town that feels quiet and still not fully discovered.
Feb 2026Floreana has it all: an isolated island, seven people trying to cohabitate (or not), love triangles, a missing Baroness, shipwrecked bodies, competing stories all resulting in a mystery that has never been solved.
Feb 2026I surprised Noah with a birthday weekend on Aitutaki — a private motu, a lagoon the color of nothing I've seen before, and one big mistake: we only booked a long weekend.
Jan 2026Our daughters joined us for a night in the dunes outside Ica — dune buggies, sandboarding, and dinner under an impossibly star-filled sky.
Jan 2026Markets fill with yellow underwear, yellow clothing and yellow decorations, all bought in the hope that the colour brings luck and abundance in the year ahead.
Dec 2025Machu Picchu really does live up to the hype. But there were quite a few things about getting there that I didn't fully understand until we did it ourselves.
One suitcase, a carry-on and a backpack each — and honestly, it's still too much. Fourteen things I wouldn't want to be without, organized by the senses.
Apr 2025Two months on Moorea, and it was the churches I kept photographing — pastel, concrete and coral stone against all that green and blue.
Jan 2025A Microplane, a digital scale, measuring spoons down to 1/64 of a teaspoon — and a little Mexican ex-voto of the patron saint of cooks that has nothing to do with cooking at all.
Jan 2025It started in the ladies' room at Pujol, where I became completely obsessed with the hand soap. Is Xínú a little pretentious? Probably. I don't really mind.
My Paris references are all very old school — my grandfather's apartment, walks to the Marais with my father, and the tea counter I've been going back to since I was nineteen.
Aug 2018