"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young."

Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican Journalist

Youth, Myth, Want

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"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care."

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"I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens."

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"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."

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"One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language."

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"Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me."

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"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican."

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