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A super-foodie's tasty tour of Tijuana

? Trujillo-Paumier

Bill Esparza's dining pick in Tijuana: Venison tacos at chef Miguel Angel Guerrero's La Querencia.

By Damien Cave , Food & Wine

Bill Esparza is lost on a hill near the border fence separating Mexico from the U.S., driving around potholes and past transvestite hookers showing far too much leg for a cold morning. The Tijuana breakfast joint he?s hunting for is a food truck called Tacos Aaron, sta?tioned outside a grocery store. ?Urban high cuisine? is painted above the windshield and seating consists of a yellow curb.

Esparza looks thrilled. A Los Angeles blogger and professional saxophonist who has played with Bryan Adams and Slash, he has become Tijuana?s unofficial food ambassador. He immediately points out that the salsas here are fresh, and that the taqueros are lightning-fast. He orders a chicken in adobo sauce for himself and a quesabirria (steak and cheese) for me.

Seconds later, hot taco in hand, I understand why Esparza has made the two-hour drive from L.A. to Tijuana more than two dozen times in the past two years. The meat is tender, stewed with dried chiles, cumin, bay leaf, clove and oregano. The fresh tor?tilla, made locally to Tacos Aaron?s specifications, stretches just enough to handle the cilantro-topped load. ?It?s all for the locals,? Esparza says, while chewing and trying not to spill on his black cowboy boots. ?And for people in the know.?

The crowd confirms it: Locals in workaday jeans rub shoulders with a group of twentysomething Americans who are on their own Tijuana taco run. Two of the English-speaking crew are food bloggers from San Diego and, without an introduction, they recognize Esparza as the man behind the site Street Gourmet L.A. Giddily, they ask for a photo, and Esparza obliges.

Esparza only started going down to Baja recently. He grew up in Stockton, Calif., as a self-described pocho (a Mexican-American who is more American than Mexican). After his father died in 2002, he says he started reconnecting with his roots, mainly through food.

His intense boosterism has helped this border town become a destination for adventurous Los Angeles foodies, who love that Tijuana is just dangerous and confusing enough to make every great find feel like a fantastic reward. It?s a city usually defined by sleaze and transients ? tourists, migrants, criminals ? all crammed into a mess of concrete where sidewalks are unusual, and the iconic ?park? is a greyhound racetrack owned by a former mayor fond of collecting rare exotic pets, such as white tigers. ?It?s a provocative city,? Esparza says.

Recently, though, the city has been changing. Fear and endless lines at the border have scared away the drunk college kids and, as if a fog has cleared, other elements of the city are now suddenly visible ? especially the food. Thanks to its farm-friendly Mediterranean climate and proximity to the Pacific, Tijuana has access to raw ingredients that are as good as those anywhere on America?s West Coast. And what it lacks in culinary tradition (Tijuana will never be Oaxaca), it makes up for with the mingling of flavors from Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Italian immigrants. And then there?s the attitude: Not quite Mexico, not quite America, Tijuana?s anything-goes vibe is evident everywhere, from the red-light district to the restaurants.

Food not found in L.A.

?It?s just two hours away from L.A., but it?s really worlds away as far as its approach to food,? says John Sedlar, chef and owner of L.A.?s Rivera and Playa restaurants. His trips to Tijuana over the past two years have influenced both the name of Playa and several of its best dishes. The monstrous Pismo clams at Mariscos Ruben, a seafood-centric food truck with 23 varieties of salsa, inspired Sedlar to create a tamale of Pismo clams that he steams and serves inside the shell. ?It?s not just the carts, it?s also fine dining,? he says. ?The city just goes on and on.?

Sedlar has been to Tijuana twice with Esparza, who has also brought chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo of L.A.?s Animal and Son of a Gun. ?The cool thing,? Shook says, ?was that a lot of the stuff we ate, we can?t get here in L.A. ? the large clams and all the ceviches they make with local marlin. It was really outstanding.?

My own Esparza tour is no less surprising. It includes a dozen locations in less than 48 hours, encompassing everything from $3 steak-and-avocado sandwiches on homemade ciabatta to a lamb-and-soft-goat-cheese pizza served by a hunter-chef in a camouflage chef jacket.

We start on the high end, amid the candlelight and wine racks of chef Javier Plascencia?s Misi?n 19. Plascencia is food royalty in Tijuana; his parents opened a pizzeria here in 1969 and now have a restaurant empire that includes Caesar?s, the Prohibition-era hot spot where the eponymous salad was invented, and a Mexican place in the San Diego suburbs.

Misi?n 19 is new, open for only a year, and vastly different than Plascencia?s family?s other restaurants. Everything on the menu comes from within a three-hour drive, and even European dishes like risotto always seem to include flavors unique to Mexico. It?s also the only place in Tijuana using modernist cooking techniques, from sous vide cooking to liquid spherification.

Plascencia, who went to high school and culinary school in San Diego, says Misi?n 19 wouldn?t have succeeded a decade ago, mainly because diners lacked a sense of adventure, and also because local farmers and fishermen used to send their best products north. Over the past few years, however, that?s changed, as the customers and suppliers have become more sophisticated. ?At some point, they just got it,? Plascencia says.

My meal at Misi?n 19 included grilled octopus with a touch of pistachio and garlic, risotto dusted with the delicious corn fungus huitlacoche, plus a briny oyster bathed in smooth, tangy green salsa. The delicate purple flower decorating the oyster made me want to take tiny bites instead of slurping it down.

Look for the streetlights

As a sign of Plascencia?s clout, he recently convinced Tijuana?s mayor to create a zona gastron?mica ? essentially adding streetlights and sidewalks, a rarity here ? which includes a dozen or so restaurants, including Misi?n 19 and another adventurous spot, La Querencia.

La Querencia is run by Miguel Angel Guerrero, a fourth-generation Baja Mexican who hunts for quail, duck and deer and decorates his restaurants with the spoils of his hunting trips. (He?s the one wearing camo.) When we arrived, Guerrero had recently shot a deer, and he served us a luscious venison tartare drenched with olive oil, chile and the Mexican specialty escamoles ? ant eggs ? which are little white orbs with a mild, nutty taste.

When Esparza and his chef friends start to talk, the conversation inevitably drifts away from the high-end to what?s happening on the street. ?Street-food culture is just a lot more honest,? Esparza says. After dinner at Misi?n 19, Plascencia and Esparza trade details about their latest taco find in an obscure neighborhood. Here, innovation starts at the bottom and trickles up ? not the other way around.

To demonstrate exactly what he means, Esparza takes me to one of his favorite new spots: Takesos y Papas, a taco stall inside the food court of a local mall. The chef here, Marcos Flores Luna, is from Puebla and specializes in extra-silky salsas that are emulsified with egg whites and tacos that mix savory and sweet flavors. While we watch, Flores expertly griddles cheese until it?s crisp, then stuffs it with shrimp, wraps it all in a tortilla and covers the dish with a tart-sweet, raspberry-strawberry-mango salsa. The salmon, shrimp and jalape?o taco is plated with unusual elegance, the sliced avocado fanned out on top and the salsa applied with a light hand. Esparza declares that L.A. taco stands ?can?t even come close to this.?

Plascencia agrees. Although he serves food that?s highly technical and complex at his restaurant, his dream is that one day, Americans and Mexicans will line up for hours at places like Takesos y Papas, just like people now wait for the best hot dog in Chicago or the best cheesesteak in Philadelphia. ?If they have a good experience, they?re going to spread the word,? Plascencia says, sounding like a civic booster. ?I love adventurous people like that.?

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US factory output rises, but construction falls

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2012 file photo, Deris Medina works on a sold Seahunter 40' at SeaHunter Boats Inc., in Princeton, Fla. U.S. factories stepped up hiring and production in March, the latest evidence that manufacturing is growing at a healthy pace and fueling the recovery. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2012 file photo, Deris Medina works on a sold Seahunter 40' at SeaHunter Boats Inc., in Princeton, Fla. U.S. factories stepped up hiring and production in March, the latest evidence that manufacturing is growing at a healthy pace and fueling the recovery. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2012 file photo, Gina Johnson performs leak tests on hydraulic fittings at the Eaton Corp. plant in Berea, Ohio. U.S. factories stepped up hiring and production in March, the latest evidence that manufacturing is growing at a healthy pace and fueling the recovery. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, a workman welds a stainless steel tank at JV Northwest, in Camby, Ore. JV Northwest manufactures stainless steel vessels. U.S. factories stepped up hiring and production in March, the latest evidence that manufacturing is growing at a healthy pace and fueling the recovery. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? U.S. factories stepped up hiring and production in March, the latest evidence that manufacturing is growing at a healthy pace and fueling the recovery.

But a separate report on construction spending showed that building activity declined in February for the second straight month, disappointing economists.

The reports show "that the economy is still locked on a very gradual healing trajectory," said Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist at Mizuho Securities.

The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said Monday that its index of manufacturing activity rose to 53.4 in March. That's up from 52.4 in the previous month. Readings above 50 indicate the sector is expanding.

A measure of manufacturing employment rose to a nine-month high, a sign that factories are hiring more workers. Manufacturers are already a big source of job gains. They've added more than 100,000 jobs in the past three months, about one-seventh of all net gains.

Separately, the Commerce Department said construction spending fell 1.1 percent in February, after a fall of 0.8 percent in the previous month. Spending on home building, office construction and government projects all fell.

The weak report shows that the construction industry is still struggling more than two and a half years after the recession ended.

Stocks rose after the reports were issued. The Dow Jones industrial average moved up 64 points in midday trading. Broader indexes also rose.

The ISM's survey found that new orders are increasing, but at a slightly slower pace than in February. Order backlogs rose at a faster pace. And manufacturers said their customers are reporting low inventories, which suggests they are likely to keep ordering new goods. All of those indicators suggest production should stay healthy in the coming months.

An index tracking export orders dropped sharply, but remained in expansionary territory. That suggests that overseas demand is easing. And a measure of prices that manufacturers pay dipped slightly but remained high, pointing to rising costs for raw materials, such as oil, copper and plastics.

The survey found that the factory growth was widespread. Fifteen of 18 manufacturing industries reported expansion, including mining, steel and other metal production, oil and gas, autos and furniture.

Increasingly confident U.S. consumers and businesses are spending more on cars, machinery and other goods, pushing up factory output. A gauge of production rose to its highest level in three months in March.

Consumers increased their spending in February by the most in seven months, the government said Friday. That is raising expectations the economy will grow a bit faster in the current quarter.

Consumer spending on long-lasting goods, such as cars and computers, rose 1.6 percent in February. That suggests manufacturers will have to increase output to meet higher demand.

Businesses also ordered more durable goods in February, after a steep drop the previous month, a separate report last week showed. Durable goods are meant to last at least three years. Greater demand for machinery, computers, autos and aircraft drove the increase.

Orders for so-called "core" capital goods, a key measure of business investment plans, also rose. They had fallen in January by the most in a year, after an investment tax credit expired.

Manufacturing has been a key source of economic growth since the recession ended in June 2009. The sector has expanded for 32 straight months, according to the ISM's index.

A recovery in auto sales has been a big reason for the strength in manufacturing. Americans delayed auto purchases during the recession, pushing the average age of U.S. cars to record highs. That led to sharp increases in car sales as the economy recovered.

More auto manufacturing boosts output in an array of industries, including steel, tire makers, and other parts suppliers.

Rising factory output is helping the broader economy grow. Growth increased to a 3 percent annual rate in the final three months of last year, up from 1.8 percent in the previous quarter.

Many economists expect growth will slow in the current quarter because companies aren't likely to restock their shelves as much as they did in the fourth quarter. But after Friday's report on consumer spending, some analysts are boosting their estimates for growth in the January-March quarter to 2.5 percent, from 2 percent.

Associated Press

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Inspiration + Action = Creation: Self-centered or centered on yourself?

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Self-centered or centered on yourself?

Today's cards: Judgment, Four of Pentacles, Three of Rods. Hmm, well, I got a travel card, and I'm traveling today. Anyone else traveling today? If so, take up whatever opportunity you see while you are out and about. Judgment talks to us about making the hard choices, listening to our innermost desires, and taking a stand. It's either a stand for what we believe in or a stand for what we want, but either way, take a stand. Whew, that sounded convoluted. Ultimately, I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you don't stand up for what you want or believe, why should anyone else?


The four of Pentacles is about greed. Now, it can be the grabbing, yucky kind of greed, or it can be the kind of greed that has you being centered on yourself. The phrase self-centered has gotten a really bad rap over the years. In fact, I bet when you read the phrase, you felt a little icky. No one wants to be described that way because it has such a negative connotation. It means you are an egotist (remind me to write about what it means to be an egotist at some point), you're selfish, or you're only concerned about what you want and need. Right? Do you consider that a negative? Being centered on what you want and you need? If not, I say good onya. If so, I'll ask you to think about what's wrong with taking some time to assess what you need and being focused on that. I think most people could use a little more time being centered on what they really need. I believe the surprise would come when many of those people realized that their needs are very different from the surface-level material things most of us think they are.?


In fact, I'd say that if we all spent some time being greedy with ourselves, our time, our thoughts, our feelings, we'd discover that our actual needs are basic and few. The trappings of greed: power, wealth, material possessions, etc., don't tend to truly satisfy. I believe they've done happiness studies of people the world over and they determined that a lot of people in what many would consider to be poor countries, describe themselves as happier than those in countries with a higher per capita income, etc. What seems to be key to happiness are human connections.?Alan B. Krueger said, "Much of what contributes to wellbeing happens outside markets." From Gallup's Economics of Happiness, "Though the study of what makes people in societies around the world feel positive about their lives begins with their relative economic status, it doesn't end there." There was a forum on happiness (around the world) and they studied responses from 130 different countries. What they found was there was a correlation between a certain amount of money and happiness, but that was only the beginning. True life satisfaction came from having other types of needs met. And today, I say, focus on that. Besides money, what are other ways you can get life satisfaction? Make a list of what makes you happy. See how many things on that list have nothing to do with what you can buy. And then go grab a few of those things and play.

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Solid Personal Finance Advice For Anyone To Follow

Apr 01 2012

There are coupons online not found in stores or newspapers, so routinely hunting them is a good idea. If you are on a budget it is key to keep up on coupons for products you use. If you are not on a budget, but like to save as much as possible, online coupons are for you.

Use past mistakes as a learning experience. If you were buried under a mountain of consumer debt, let it be a lesson about how pointless it is to get into such debt in the first place. Try to learn from your mistakes, and negotiate better wages next time the opportunity arises. As you review your history of personal finances in your mind?s eye, realize that every lesson you can learn from your experiences is worthwhile. Know that what you know today is more then you knew yesterday, and every bit of knowledge puts you in a better financial situation in the future.

Such a fund needs to three months financial support. The easiest way to build your fund up is to take ten percent of your pay and place it into a savings account.

A sale at a grocery can be a good deal, but only if you get as much as you know you will be able to use. It is a good idea to buy multiples of items you utilize on a regular basis, but you only save money if you can eat everything before it spoils. Have a good idea of how much you use of items, so that when you do find it on sale, you can buy the optimal amount.

Save money by not eating at restaurants or getting take out. Only eat at restaurants on special occasions. Creating meals at home can save you hundreds of dollars every month.

It?s normal for people to make mistakes, and it happens to everyone, especially when it comes to finances. There is a chance that your bank will wave a bounced check fee if it is the first time it has happened. Of course, this is a one-time thing that banks offer only to those who maintain a positive balance and manages their account effectively.

As was discusses in this article, good financial management will help you save for more expensive purchases in the future. Using the advice in this article can help you become better prepared to deal with your money properly.

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Larry Echo Hawk appointed to LDS Church leadership post; resigns from Bureau of Indian Affairs

SALT LAKE CITY - The top official for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs is resigning to accept a full-time leadership position with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ending three years with the department that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says "opened a new chapter" in U.S. relationships with American Indian tribes.

Larry Echo Hawk, the assistant secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, is being appointed to the Quorum of the Seventy, which is the Mormon Church's third-highest governing body. The announcement from the church came Saturday during its semi-annual general conference in Salt Lake City.

President Barack Obama appointed Echo Hawk, 63, to oversee the BIA in 2009.

"With Larry Echo Hawk's leadership, we have opened a new chapter in our nation to nation relationships with American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments, accelerated the restoration of tribal homelands, improved safety in tribal communities, resolved century-old water disputes, invested in education, and reached many more milestones that are helping Indian nations pursue the future of their choosing," Salazar said in a statement.

During Echo Hawk's tenure, the Interior Department settled a $3.4 billion class-action lawsuit with Native American landowners over mismanaged royalties. The settlement reached in late 2009 is under appeal.

Salazar said he would work with Echo Hawk to ensure a smooth transition within the BIA. It was not clear who would be appointed to oversee the BIA after Echo Hawk's departure.

Echo Hawk, a member of the Pawnee Nation, was elected Idaho attorney general in 1990, the first Native American to be elected to the position in any state. He ran unsuccessfully in 1994 for Idaho governor as a Democrat.

He was a Brigham Young University law professor for 14 years before leading the BIA.

After his appointment, Echo Hawk said in a speech in Salt Lake City in 2009 that he wrestled with the decision to accept a position that would make him a "face" for a federal government that has had a sordid history of mistreating Indians. He finally reconciled his hesitation by vowing to be an "agent for change" instead of a mere caretaker.

"How do you reverse 200 years of struggles?" he said then. "It's not going to be easy."

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