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Dispatch | Cooke City, Montana

Boris — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:35:21 +0000

“You’re going to Cooke City?” an acquaintance in Livingston, in south-central Montana, asked. “That’s where all the varmints hide out!”

Now Grooming | A Shave and a Haircut, New Orleans Style

Boris — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:26:10 +0000

Unlike many immigrant parents, Olga Rivera, who moved from Guatemala to New Orleans in 1965, wanted her son Cesar to become one thing and one thing only — a barber. Cesar, growing up amid the culinary splendors of the Big Easy, wanted to be a chef. Mothers know best...

Dispatch | New Orleans

Boris — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:19:26 +0000

“Ten to six, Saints — second quarter,” our server at Elizabeth’s said by way of greeting. “I’ll be right back with your menus.” A lady of a certain age, she wore construction boots, cargo shorts and an oversize Saints T-shirt beneath a pixie crop of salt-and-pepper hair.

Mexico’s Cultural Revolution

Boris — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:45:43 +0000

You’re going to be part of an experiment tonight,” Justo Fernández Garibay said. “We couldn’t find chestnuts for the stuffing, so we’re using macadamia nuts.” I was about to sit down to Thanksgiving dinner at the Posada Coatepec, a beautiful…