An Essential Part Of The Magic Involves

And, Of Course, Millions Of Us Cross The Border To Work In Us Homes And Gardens And Factories And Carpentry Shops And Restaurants, And If You Go To A Restaurant Pretty Much Anywhere In The United States, The Chances Are That The Dishes Will Be Washed By A Mexican.

I May Not Have A Practical Mind, But It's Very Fixated On Concrete Things. I Like Detail.

What I Wonder Is What Would Happen In California, Say, If All The Mexicans Left From One Day To The Next?

I Think The Great Mexican Cuisine Is Dying Because There Are Fast Foods Now Competing, Because There Are Supermarkets, And Supermarkets Can't Afford To Keep In Stock A Lot Of These Very Perishable Products That Are Used For Fine Mexican Cooking. Women Are Working And Real Mexican Cooking Requires Enormous Amounts Of Time.

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.