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What Do You Get Latino Nerds For Christmas?
By Eres Nerd Like many Latino Nerds, I don’t have children. Going to college and several years of graduate school delayed the biological process. Dressing like a nerd for many years […]
What Will Make You Happy This Christmas And In 2012?
Sometimes, in between doing so much, we forget why we’re doing it, or what we’re doing it for. Sometimes, this happens with Christmas. With so much anticipation and media stimulation […]
Mexican Christmas Ponche
By Abigail Garcia December is one of my favorite months: everything is filled with red, green, white, silver- and in Mexico you also see a lot of orange, yellow and […]
Guatemalan Christmas Ponche
By Melissa Pitts First, let me begin this recipe intro by saying that this is not Mexican ponche! Guatemalan ponche is very different from your classic Mexican version (you’ll have […]
The Top 5 Christmas Foods To Look Forward To
So most of us struggle to find our way around the consumerism that occupies this time of the year. What about family? Being grateful for the people in your life? […]
An Unexpected Christmas is Best
I spent part of last week, like most of us, wading through the crowds and Christmas commerce. I’m not the type to do my Christmas shopping with a list and […]
Pocha Christmas Memories
My family is from South Texas, the border, but I grew up in L.A. I remember really clearly growing up how strange all my cousins seemed to me when I’d […]
A Very Latina Christmas List
Omg, if you’re at all like me, you have no money to spend this Christmas! Good news is, there’s really nothing that I want that’s really all that expensive. We […]
The Three Kings: A Christmas Dating Story
By Vincent Bosquez When Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez wrote The Dirty Girls Social Club, she turned the literary world on its head by revitalizing the “chick lit” genre, and convincingly smashed cultural […]
Rosca de Reyes – A Slice of Gospel and Tradition #Recipe
Often used as evangelizing tools, celebrations in Mexico feature elements that are charged with symbolism. Take the piñata, for example, used as an allegory of sin (colorful and appealing on the […]