Christopher Lux

By Christopher Lux El Nopal Mexican restaurant sits just off Paucarbamba behind El Vergel, surrounded by houses and a few seafood restaurants. This small family-owned restaurant is serving up traditional […]

By Christopher Lux With everything sold but our house back in North Carolina, in September last year my son and I arrived in Cuenca. We came ahead of my wife […]

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series about a family’s move to Cuenca.  Christopher Lux My wife, son, and I arrived in Cuenca a year ago and […]

By Christopher Lux When Lindsay Burton began planning San Sebas Café, she envisioned a place where university students would drink good coffee, talk, read and work. The café was inspired […]

By Christopher Lux There’s a joke around Cuenca that pizza is becoming the city’s comida tipica. As a matter of fact, it’s not hard to find pizza in the city. […]

By Christopher Lux In the United States, my meat came from supermarkets. Wanting a little ‘security’ and familiarity for my meat purchases after I moved to Cuenca, I continued to […]

By Christopher Lux I had never been to a Latin Mass. I had never wanted to go. Though the Latin Mass has been growing in popularity among U.S. and Canadian […]

By Christopher Lux On Saturday morning, a concerned resident in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York, called 911 to report a man “mistreating a squirrel.” The man, in fact, was […]