Eating the Street

IMAGE: 2:30 p.m. in Mexico City…. time for a snack! All photos by Nicola Twilley, unless labelled otherwise. Mexico City’s streets are dense with food vendors. Statistics are hard to come by, since the industry is largely unregulated, but in her 2007...

The Axis of Food

IMAGE: Watermelons at the Central de Abasto in DF. All photos by the author unless otherwise noted. IMAGE: La Central de Abasto from a helicopter. Photo by Oscar Ruiz. La Central de Abasto de la Ciudad de México is enormous. It sprawls across a 327 hectare site on the...

Talking Nose

IMAGE: Still from Talking Nose video. All images courtesy Sissel Tolaas, unless otherwise credited. Artist Sissel Tolaas was one of the people I most wanted to speak at Postopolis! DF, having seen her discussing smell as design in New York earlier this year. Although...

Julio the Sewer Diver

Long-time Pruned readers (which I encourage you all to become, if you are not already) might remember a short post from January 2007, which introduced Carlos Barrios, a former accountant turned official Mexico City sewer diver. These Washington Post descriptions of...

Fueling Mexico City: A Grain Revolution

IMAGE: Walmart, Mexico City. Walmart sells more food each year than anyone else in Mexico. It is the country’s biggest private employer, with a range of supermarkets (the high-end Superama and discount Bodega), department stores (the wonderfully named Suburbia)...

Postopolis! DF: Schedule Announced

IMAGE: Canned chiles in a Mexico City supermarket by Flickr user hmerinomx. With less than a week to go, the schedule for Postopolis! DF has been announced, and it’s going to be an amazing week. I’m especially excited to introduce the speakers I invited,...