About A Gringo in Mexico
San Diego-based lifestyle writer W. Scott Koenig has traveled throughout Mexico and Baja California for over twenty years. He founded AGringoInMexico.com in 2012 to report on Mexican travel destinations, food, culture and adventure.
Scott is considered a key influencer in Baja California and San Diego. A Gringo In Mexico and its affiliated social channels are viewed by thousands in the US and Mexico on a weekly basis.
Scott is the author of the book Seven Days in The Valle: Baja California’s Wine Country Cuisine and writes columns for DiningOut San Diego, SanDiegoRed.com and DiscoverBaja.com. He has been published at Baja.com, The Baja Times, Destino Magazine, The Oaxaca Times, The San Diego Free Press and The Yucatan Times.
Scott is the Food Expert for Baja California at ExtremeFoodies.tv (formerly FoodieHub), an international culinary site curated by over 275 experts worldwide. This organization made a significant media impact on the region in 2015, when it named restaurant La Cocina de Doña Esthela “Best Breakfast in the World”.
Working with trusted transportation and tour partners, Scott organizes and conducts culinary tours of Baja California for friends, clients, journalists, chefs, educators and culinary professionals. He has helped fix film and video productions in the region and has worked with the Food Channel, the BBC, KPBS and the Culinary Institute of America (CIA).
Scott has built a bi-national network of culinary professionals, business leaders, tourism officials, media agencies, writers and photographers. These relationships allow A Gringo in Mexico to connect people in ways that benefit our content and assist in promoting business, education, and the arts in the San Diego/Baja California mega-region.
Scott is also the owner of Koenig Creative LLC in San Diego and counts several Fortune 1000 companies as his clients. He has over 30 years of experience in marketing, creative direction and graphic design.
Read more about A Gringo in Mexico:
Meet Scott Koenig: A Gringo in Mexico (San Diego Voyager)
Interview with A Gringo in Mexico (South Bay Compass)
Email:
Scott@AGringoInMexico.com
I have to disagree with you, Scott. I have traveled Mexico extensively for decades and written about it for many years. It was not intended to be a Mexico Tourism Board piece, there are plenty of those around. I thought his love of Mexico and its people were evident throughout. Corruption in Mexico is systemic – it is everywhere. Bourdain focused on certain aspects of Mexico. The fact that he didn’t tout the safe tourist corridors should not detract from the journalistic quality of the report.
Hi Scott!! I totally agreed with you about Bourdains program spotlighting violence and the cartels in Mexico. I live here and we don’t see that . It irritates me when people who know nothing of this country warn and scare people without knowing what it is really like here. By doing that, they are hurting the flow of tourists traveling here and it hurts this economy. I am an artist and I am living in Ajijic, Mexico. I love to travel to the small towns and take photos of the people and scenes of Mexico and then I paint them. I have an artist profile page on Facebook–you can see it by typing Louise Neal-Pedroza Artist. I also have lots of photo albums on my facebook page albums—telling short picture stories of my time in their town seeing the sights and learning about the people there. I love mexico and will not return to the U.S. except to visit family and friends time to time but I always cant wait to get back here!!
Thanks for your comment, Louise! I’ve heard from a couple of expats now from Ajijic on this post. I’ll have to make it to that area of the country someday! My wife and I plan to “semi-retire” in Mexico someday in the not to distant future. I’ll take a look at your artwork…thanks again!
Scott
Hi, thanks for following my blog, The Haute Mommy Handbook (http://hautemommyhandbook.com/). I look forward to reading more from you! 🙂
Scott, I saw your blog in the San Diego Reader.
That’s a great photograph of you at the top of this page. Can you tell me how it was done, i.e., type of camera (Canon Rebel SLR or ?), flash(?) or type of lighting?
Also, back in the 1990s, the San Diego Reader published a story about a secret, hidden, underground community somewhere in Baja on the Sea of Cortez side. Supposedly, ships and people were sucked into the ocean and ended up in underground caverns. Have you ever heard of this?
Thanks!
Jay Schwartz
Hi Jay, thanks for your comment!
I usually use a DSLR, however, my wife took this shot of me in San Jose sel Cabo using her iPhone. No flash as it was midday and the light was good.
I have not heard about that underground community, but it sounds fascinating. Anything on the web about this?
Scott (El Gringo)
Jay Schwartz – I actually have that Reader article. It was from the Sept 6 1984 issue. Maybe the Reader has it archived?