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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.

The Most That Somebody In Mexico City Will Get Paid For A Job In Construction Is 100 Pesos A Day.

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.

You Know, One, Two, Three, Four, Five Years Go By And Then Marcos Gets A Little Boring.

The Best Translators Slip Into The Glove Of A Text And Then Turn It Inside Out Into Another Language, And The Whole Thing Comes Out Looking Like A Brand-new Glove Again. I'm Completely In Awe Of This Skill, Since I Happen To Be Both Bilingual And A Writer, But Nevertheless A Lousy Translator.