How Drug Bosses Learned from Big Business
With El Chapo behind bars and America’s legal-weed revolution underway, Tom Wainwright’s Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel could not have come at a more pertinent time. Delving into “what big business taught the drug lords,” The Economist’s former Mexico City correspondent offers some needed context to the regionwide debate over drug policy. Full … Read more
AQ Top 5 de Chefs Jóvenes
Read in English En América Latina, una nueva generación de virtuosos culinarios ha adoptado ingredientes locales – y precios accesibles. En este número, Americas Quarterly presenta a los más sobresalientes entre ellos.
AQ Top 5 de Chefs Jóvenes: Xavier Pacheco
Read in English Cuando el chef Xavier Pacheco regresó de Barcelona a su natal Puerto Rico sabía que abrir un restaurante que sirviera platillos con ingredientes frescos de la localidad sería una lucha cuesta arriba. Puerto Rico, antes poseedor de un próspero sector agrícola, ahora importa el 85 por ciento de sus alimentos, pero Pacheco, … Read more
AQ Top 5 de Chefs Jóvenes: Elena Reygadas
Romper las reglas culinarias ha sido motivo de gran aclamación para la chef y propietaria de Rosetta.
AQ Top 5 de Chefs Jóvenes: Israel Laura
Read in English A los 22 años Israel Laura estaba trabajando en una fábrica de cables eléctricos situada en las afueras de Barcelona, ciudad a la que había emigrado desde Perú siendo adolescente. Ante la poco inspiradora perspectiva de una vida de trabajo en una fábrica, y cansado de saltar de un empleo a otro, … Read more
AQ Top 5 de Chefs Jóvenes: Silvana Villegas
Read in English Usted no encontrará gran cosa en el menú de Masa que no sea completa y apasionadamente tradicional. Precisamente esa es la intención de Silvana Villegas. La chef de 31 años y copropietaria de una de las panaderías y restaurantes más populares de Bogotá se propuso como misión llevar el miche levain, el … Read more
AQ Top 5 de Chefs Jóvenes: Rodrigo Oliveira
Read in English Por ridículo que pueda parecer, la élite acaudalada de São Paulo tradicionalmente rehuía a los restaurantes “brasileños”. Para esta, una comida de lujo tenía que ser francesa, portuguesa, japonesa o cualquier otra, mientras fuera extranjera –preferencia que era un reflejo de la historia de la ciudad como punto importante de llegada de migrantes, … Read more
How Mexican Cinema Entered Its Second ‘Golden Age’
Mexican filmmakers’ success in Hollywood and beyond didn’t come overnight.
Book Review: El Mall
The structures that inhabit our daily lives — our homes, businesses, churches — are often markers of the invisible forces that shape and crystallize them. But it takes a lucid and thoughtful eye to see the tangible as something also drenched in the revealing, subtle nuances of social and cultural life. Arlene Dávila, the author of El Mall: The … Read more
Book Review: Albina and the Dog-Men
Like Alejandro Jodorowsky himself, Albina and the Dog-Men seems to be all imaginable things at once: a fable and a folktale, a Western, a tragedy, a lewd comedy. A love story. The short novel’s titular character is an albino giant with no memory of her past. By moonlight, Albina unwittingly transforms the men of a … Read more
AQ Top 5 Young Chefs: Xavier Pacheco
Leer en español See the rest of the AQ Top 5 When Chef Xavier Pacheco returned to his native Puerto Rico from Barcelona, he knew opening a restaurant that served dishes with fresh, local ingredients, would be an uphill struggle. Puerto Rico, once home to a thriving agricultural sector, now imports 85 percent of its … Read more
AQ Top 5 Young Chefs: Elena Reygadas
Breaking culinary rules has led to widespread acclaim for the head chef and owner of Rosetta.
AQ Top 5 Young Chefs: Israel Laura
Leer en español See the rest of the AQ Top 5 At age 22, Israel Laura was working in an electric cable factory outside of Barcelona, where he had emigrated from Peru as a teenager. Faced with the uninspiring prospect of a life of factory work, and tired of bouncing from job to job, Laura … Read more
AQ Top 5 Young Chefs: Silvana Villegas
Leer en español See the rest of the AQ Top 5 You won’t find much on the menu at Masa (“dough” in Spanish) that isn’t completely, passionately, traditional. That’s how Silvana Villegas intends it. The 31-year-old chef and co-owner of one of Bogotá’s most popular bakeries and lunch spots has made it her mission to … Read more
AQ Top 5 Young Chefs: Rodrigo Oliveira
Leer en español See the rest of the AQ Top 5 As ridiculous as it may sound, São Paulo’s moneyed elite historically shunned “Brazilian” restaurants. Fine dining meant French, Portuguese, Japanese, or anything else foreign — reflecting both the city’s immigrant-heavy background and its prized self-image as distinct from the rest of Brazil. That finally began to … Read more
