Alma Guillermoprieto

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. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#although #cook #cooking #everything #fun

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#detail #fixated #i #i may not #like

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

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#die #going #myth #want #you

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

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#does #givens #language #many #society

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#anywhere #citizen #else #feel #had

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. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#as far as #assume #different #different personalities #does

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#construction #day #get #job #mexico

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#no point #point #smile #you

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#back #became #before #closely #course

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next? ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#day #happen #i #i wonder #left