Today's featured couple at Coffee with a Canine: C.M. Mayo & Picadou, aka "Minky Chica."Mayo on how Picadou got her name:
She's black so my husband wanted to name her Zapote, after the sapodilla, that squishy black fruit, which I thought sounded very butch. I happened to have a reference book on cheese, so I opened that and found a goat cheese called "picadou." I assumed it had a black ash crust, like chevre. It turns it out that it doesn't (it's a white cheese wrapped in herbs), but never mind, Picadou...[read on]C.M. Mayo is the author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books, 2009), a novel based on the true story.
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire made Library Journal's Top Books 2009 list.Mayo is also author of Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico (Milkweed Editions, 2007) and Sky Over El Nido (University of Georgia Press, 1995) which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and editor of Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, a portrait of Mexico in the works of 24 Mexican writers. She lives in Washington DC and Mexico City.
Learn more about the author and her work -- and Picadou -- at www.cmmayo.com.
Read--Coffee with a Canine: C.M. Mayo & Picadou.
--Marshal Zeringue
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