Fanny Calder?n de la Barca (1804-1882) lived in Mexico City for two years in the 1840s as the wife of the first envoy Spain sent to Mexico after Independence. She described her stay in a book, Life in Mexico, published in 1843, leaving vivid impressions of the capital and countryside, the aristocracy and government officials, the servants and beggars-and her own appealing personality.Chocolate With Chile mixes the historical facts of Fanny's life...