CHILD’S PLAY
Mexico City’s freakiest attraction is the stuff of urban legend: An island full of dolls, allegedly appeasing the spirit of a girl who drowned. Here’s what it’s like to visit.
Nevin Martell is a D.C.-area based food and travel writer, photographer, and parenting essayist, who has been published by The Washington Post, USA Today, The Boston Globe, Men’s Journal, National Geographic, Fortune, Travel + Leisure, Runner’s World, and many other publications. He is the author of eight books, including Red Truck Bakery Cookbook: Gold-Standard Recipes from America’s Favorite Rural Bakery, The Founding Farmers Cookbook: 100 Recipes for True Food & Drink, Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip, and the travelogue-memoir Freak Show Without a Tent: Swimming with Piranhas, Getting Stoned in Fiji and Other Family Vacations. Find him online at nevinmartell.com and follow him @nevinmartell (Instagram) and @nevinmartell (Twitter).
OPEN YOUR MIND
Forward-thinking confectioners are looking back at the country’s age-old fermentation practices to create some of the most interesting modern flavors.
EAT SHEET
The capital city may be the center of the political world, but it wasn’t for food. Now, it’s full of delicious offerings.