Travel&Vacation

I pop the toasted grasshopper right in my mouth. It tastes kind of like bacon and is seasoned with chili and salt. Not bad! My kids wrinkle their noses. We are walking through a market in Oaxaca City, where we’ve arrived just this afternoon. Locals are selling the “chapulines”—there are big piles of them—for just three pesos a bag (about 40 cents). Oaxaca is in the southeastern part of Mexico and we’ve come here for a few days of cultural immersion after a week lazing on the beach near Playa del Carmen. (More about that in another column.) Mexico beaches are terrific, of course, but there is so much more to see and do in this country. To make the most of our time, we’ve arranged for Austin-Lehman Adventures to plan our stay so that I don’t have to fret the details. The
(Read the full post about ‘A Culinary Paradise in Oaxaca’…)