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The Water Rabbit has left the building. 

We hope it was good to you in every which way, but this is no time to live in the past, people – a new boss is in office. Thus, in the name of celestial succession, The Hungry Herald would now like to bid a warm and eager welcome to the mighty Wood Dragon, wishing one and all a 2024 bursting at the scales with such dragonly signatures as good fortune, prosperity, strength and power – in other words, get ready for a whole lotta 太好了!(Tài hǎo le = 👍👍!). The wood element brings with it a creative, innovative and nurturing energy, combining beautifully with the dragon’s natural courage and ambition, making this year a perfect time to embark on some serious inner and outer growth journeying. So ready your arts and ready your spirits, this is bound to get interesting… 

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CASANOVA CAFE La Paz Mexico - Cover Photo

A NEW CASANOVA

So there we were, standing in the very eye of Hurricane Sergio, knee-deep in new knowledge while the grandmaster of Gratitude rained fresh bolts of caffeinated facts onto our heads from his cosmic bag of roasted thunderbeans. It was an epic afternoon.
(If you have no idea what the macchiato-hell I’m talking about, we recommend

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BEANS OF LIGHT

Sergio and Gloria had quite literally run away with the circus. Leaving their home in Mexico, they worked as trapeze artists in Oakland, California, for a spell, eventually moving on to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the intention of opening up a circus school. Plans changed, and somewhere along the way, coffee happened.

Boy, are we

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Hi, my name is Michael, and I’m a fish soup fiend.

More broadly, if it comes from river, lake, ocean or sea, and it bathes in bouillon, I’m all over it like slime on a trout. To wit, I once went on a road trip to Boston with my great friend to see a Tom

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PICO DE GALLO

Some dishes in life are more like good friends than food. They’re honest, dependable, supportive, encouraging, and when you see them, you light up, knowing full well that you’re in for a good ol’ time. They’re there for you when you’re up, there for you when you’re down, and whenever you might be in need

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Remember Chi-Chi’s? I don’t.

Although the Tex-Mex restaurant chain with the eyebrow-raising name (go ahead, Google its meaning in Spanish) was big when I was a kid, I don’t quite recall ever making it out to one of their locations, despite my fascination with reports that they were somehow deep-frying ice cream. I guess we weren’t

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Eating caviar with my dad - Christmas 1978

A ROUND FOR ROBBIE: TOASTING A TRUE FINE TASTER

There once was a man and his fridge.

More to the point, there once was a man sitting on a kitchen chair in front of his open fridge and staring into it for hours on end.

I never knew exactly what the hell my father was doing when I would find him hunched forward in his housecoat, bathed in the holy glow of that Westinghouse fridge and seemingly ensconced in matters of crucial importance known only to him, the mustard and the ketchup. Every now and then while going about my kid-ness, I’d stop for a curious few seconds and observe. It would seem that the outside world was no more as he peered within and rummaged. I watched him pick things up, check containers,

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GRATITUDE CAFÉ facade La Paz Mexico Baja California Sur

BEANS OF LIGHT

Sergio and Gloria had quite literally run away with the circus. Leaving their home in Mexico, they worked as trapeze artists in Oakland, California, for a spell, eventually moving on to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the intention of opening up a circus school. Plans changed, and somewhere along the way, coffee happened.

Boy, are we ever grateful that it did…

READ MORE
CASANOVA CAFE La Paz Mexico - Cover Photo

A NEW CASANOVA

So there we were, standing in the very eye of Hurricane Sergio, knee-deep in new knowledge while the grandmaster of Gratitude rained fresh bolts of caffeinated facts onto our heads from his cosmic bag of roasted thunderbeans. It was an epic afternoon.
(If you have no idea what the macchiato-hell I’m talking about, we recommend you first enjoy our last post, Beans of Light, to infuse this reading with a little added richness and complexity. Go ahead, we’ll be here when you get back.)

At one point during our interview with the owner and head roaster of Gratitude Coffee Makers, he broke out a portable Delter press, brewed up some of his favourite beans — while of course geekifying on temperature control and fusion points

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PICO DE GALLO

Some dishes in life are more like good friends than food. They’re honest, dependable, supportive, encouraging, and when you see them, you light up, knowing full well that you’re in for a good ol’ time. They’re there for you when you’re up, there for you when you’re down, and whenever you might be in need of a good kick in the ass, they readily oblige. Also, if the other food unfortunately happens to kinda suck, they just have that special je ne sais quoi for making it all better. Yup, we’re looking at you, pico de gallo…

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NIXTAMALIZATION

Welcome to our very first instalment of The Hungry Hungry Glossary, an ever-growing lexicon of intriguing culinarily relevant terms that we hope will add a little flavour to your day. Let’s take a tiny tortilla of a time out now and talk about a word we’d like you to stick in your pantry tout de suite if it’s not already in there…

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DIVORCE NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD

Just wow. In Cabo San Lucas, at Land’s End, lies a pair of beaches that together and separately are simply in a league of their own. Playa de Los Amantes (or Playa del Amor) and Playa del Divorcio share the very tip of the Baja peninsula, just shy of the spot where the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean meet in spectacular fashion. Two sides of the same cape, if you will…

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The Water Rabbit has left the building.

We hope it was good to you in every which way, but there’s no time to live in the past, people – a new boss is in the office. In the name of celestial succession, The Hungry Herald would now like to bid

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GRATITUDE CAFÉ facade La Paz Mexico Baja California Sur

BEANS OF LIGHT

Sergio and Gloria had quite literally run away with the circus. Leaving their home in Mexico, they worked as trapeze artists in Oakland, California, for a spell, eventually moving on to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the intention of opening up a circus school. Plans changed, and somewhere along the way,

READ MORE
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FISH SOUP IN PARADISE

Hi, my name is Michael, and I’m a fish soup fiend.

More broadly, if it comes from river, lake, ocean or sea, and it bathes in bouillon, I’m all over it like slime on a trout. To wit, I once went on a road trip to Boston with my great

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