Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Dory Shafrier.

And I'm Elise Hugh, and we're two friends who like to talk a lot about syrums.

How's it going, Elise?

We are back. I am back in the country. I spent President's Day weekend in Ciudade Mexico, in the capital of Mexico.

And it was delightful. I had several friends joined from different

parts of my life and their only connection was me, but now they're all friends with each other.

There's a very boisterous group chat and some of the group actually stayed longer, stayed until

Thursday and so they're hanging out with my friends who live in Mexico City to do a little

bit more stuff. But yeah, we ate so many delicious tacos. We hit the Alpasteur that's so good there

and the fish tacos and the chili Rieno tacos. And it was just, it was a really good time. We took a

salsa making class. A friend of mine arranged. She took charge of Saturday night and she was like, it was a really good time. We took a salsa making class.

A friend of mine arranged, she took charge of Saturday night, and she was like, I found this salsa making experience with a local chef where you go to his house and he teaches,

he'll teach all eight of us.

And he did that.

We made like six different salsas.

Two of them were fresh.

Two of them were cooked.

And then two of them were half

cooked, half fresh, because you can have salsa that you kind of like roast the tomatoes and

you roast the chilies. But then there's other ingredients like the cilantro and the onions. They're

fresh. And so you just like blend them all together. So I learned a lot about that. We've made our

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