Fare, Issue 14 – Mexico City

Fare is a new magazine exploring city culture through food, history, and community.

Fare introduces its readers to a single city and lets its locals do the talking: taking you down backstreets and through forgotten histories, exploring neighbourhoods and local institutions, and doing more than just taste the food on offer. Fare connects armchair travelers with immersive and nuanced stories from cities around the world, and serves as a kind of roadmap for those who are ready to make the actual trip to see things for themselves.

In this issue:

Sitting atop ancient ruins and once-vast lakes, today’s Mexico City is both humming with history and hungry for change.

In Fare: Mexico City:

-Walk the canal-lined floating farms of Xochimilco, where the last vestiges of the city’s ancient agriculture still thrive

-Meet chef-activists Saqib Keval and Norma Listman, who interweave their culinary heritages in a workplace built on change

– Visit the studio of Afro-Mexican ceramicist Dagoberto Gonzalez, whose clay work is crafted from the volcanic black sands of his ancestor’s villages

-Breathe in a burst of colour in the Mercado de Jamaica, a densely packed flower market named for its vibrant purple dried hibiscus flowers

-Watch taqueros spin out plates of tacos al pastor, the city-wide favourite with Ottoman origins