Honoring the Tamale Calls of Mexico City
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.24.08 | 10:28 AM ET
It’s not quite a call to prayer. It’s more like a call to chow down. The Los Angeles Times pays homage to the sounds of the city’s neighborhood food vendors with this fine little video. Writes Ken Ellingwood: “You hear it from a block away: an amplified, singsong call with an uncanny power to slice through the urban din. The tone is cheap and tinny—as kitschy as a sound can be. And it’s my favorite in Mexico City.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Jack gives travel advice 11.28.08 | 6:22 AM ET
This makes me so hungry just thinking about it. There’s something about the street food (and in the markets, of course) of Mexico that is just so very satisfying. Haven’t had the same feeling anywhere else in the world.