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While serving in France I met a young fellow who grew up to be a chef. He and his wife visited while I was living in Mexico. He went crazy about the food, street food, restaurant food, festival food, any Mexican food. This was after being warned that Mexican food is crap by a fellow chef married to a Spaniard. Mexican food is amazing and street food is off the planet. If you have Netflix check this out: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81143303?trackId=13752289 There are a couple of places I have been to in the videos and can tell you that the food was just wonderful.

But it is pictures you want. This is a taco stand in the night market in Patzcuaro. There is a day and a night market, different stands occupy the same place. These guys just have to have great tacos by their looks. And they did. The rotating spit of layers of meat is shaved onto a hot grill where it is finished and made into tacos. It is tacos al pastor. The rotating spit came with Middle Eastern immigrants, for Greeks it is gryos, for others it is shwarma. Mexican food is all-encompassing.

Fish tacos purportedly came from Japanese immigrants and their tempura. The Japanese learned battered fried fish, and bread, from the Portuguese who had early trading settlements in Japan. Food! It's everywhere. ;o)


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Food is always a good subject for me. This is the Café du Monde in New Orleans. You may have heard the rumor that it is an offence punishable by horsewhipping to leave New Orleans without stopping there for coffee and beignets with that chicory coffee. I decided not to test the rumor. The beignets and coffee were well deserved of their fame. And I escaped a perhaps-needed horsewhipping.

Life is so short, enjoy all of it that you can.


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To finish up my Mexican food run, here is "The Chicken Lady." She is at the outside end of the night market in Patzcuaro where it starts/finishes at the street. She has boiled potatoes and carrots and roast chicken. She fries them up with onions in that huge wok-like pan, hustling up heaps of dinners to go in cardboard boxes. And just like the fish and chips in the UK the chicken dinners make it home piping hot, ready to be feasted upon. Mexico is a food chorale of many voices and can they ever sing. The voices are beautiful. You can be sure the food is OK if the locals are eating it as they get food distress just as we do. And where the lines are the longest is where you want to stand.

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Out to Lunch, on Flickr. Thanh Da, Saigon. A snail and clam restaurant preparing for business. Inexpensive and popular street food, usually eaten with chili-based sauces and washed down with a lot of Tiger beer. Fuji X-H1 - Zeiss Distagon 4/18 m-mount.
 
If I have posted this already, forgive me. Being senile is not as easy as you might think. ;o)

Astoria is a town which fishes. The Steve C. is out of Warrenton but sells the fish at Bornstein (https://www.bornstein.com/), the fairest fish buyer around. Most local fishers sell to him.

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I had just finished telling all my non-local friends that we do not get snow here in Astoria. Yeah, you know what happened. We got a couple of inches for Christmas Day. And luckily almost everyone stayed home. We get so little snow that folks do not know how to drive on it. It gets pretty exciting.

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Ilwaco is a depressed town. The jobs have disappeared, the tourist trade did not appear this past summer and hope seems to have vanished. This is the center of downtown, First Street N, First Street S.

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Ships, boats and sailing fascinate me. This is a photo of the Regatta which moored here awaiting repairs and refitting in Portland upriver.

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