{"id":1423,"date":"2013-03-26T12:58:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T19:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2013-03-26T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T19:59:06","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e18-first-rate-second-world-eating-with-nicholas-gilman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E18: First-Rate “Second World” Eating with Nicholas Gilman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City’s Colonia Roma with artist-turned-food writer Nicholas Gilman, author of the book and blog Good Food in Mexico City: Fondas, Food Stalls, and Fine Dining<\/a><\/em>. They discuss the culinary importance of places like\u00a0Mercado Medell\u00edn; how Mexico City’s art, not its food, first brought him here (make a beeline though he did\u00a0to the handmade tortillas when he first arrived at 18); all the warnings about “what you shouldn’t do” in Mexico City \u2014 or, for that matter, the New York City of the seventies and eighties in which he grew up; the strides Mexico City has made in the past fifteen years, especially as regards cleaning up pollution and opening up small business and culinary opportunities; his career switch from painter to food writer, and his discovery that you simply “don’t have to suffer so much” in Mexico City; his realization that no useful English-language food guides to the area existed, how that prompted him to publish his own, and the great deal of attention it soon drew; what people get wrong when they first go eating in Mexico City, such as understanding the “timing” of the food; the dismantling of the car culture, the institution of bicycle programs, and the conversion of Mexico into at least a new “second-world” country; his eating strategies in a new city, including looking for their markets; the importance of tapping into a city’s social knowledge, especially that possessed by taxi drivers; how to convince people you want to eat “the real thing,” i.e., the food they themselves eat; bringing a necessary outsider’s perspective to another culture; the various misconceptions that linger about Mexican food; the usually unhappy experiences of foreign cuisines that make it to Mexico; and when best to eat huitlacoche.<\/p>\n

Download the interview from\u00a0Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em>\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City’s Colonia Roma with artist-turned-food writer Nicholas Gilman, author of the book and blog Good Food in Mexico City: Fondas, Food Stalls, and Fine Dining. They discuss the culinary importance of places like\u00a0Mercado Medell\u00edn; how Mexico City’s art, not its food, first brought him here (make a beeline though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico-city","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}