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Portrait of Doña Lupe

The Tamal Vendor

Doña Lupe

A warm welcome, a steaming tamal, and a little nudge to try your Spanish.

Doña Lupe runs a breakfast stand in Coyoacán and knows that a good morning starts with a greeting. Warm, practical, and gently bossy, she calls her customers joven or mijo and sends them off with a tamal and a kind word. She is proud of her food and patient with anyone making an honest effort in Spanish.

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