Rachel Laudan

Sandra Aguilar, a Mexican friend who is completing a Ph.D. at the University of Manchester, just sent me a paper she published this month in The Americas called “Cooking Modernity: Nutrition Policies, Class, and Gender in 1940s and 1950s Mexico City.” You can find it on Project Muse.
In brief the story is this. In [...]

A few days ago I found myself in hospital for a couple of days. Being out of control of one’s life is not pleasant. Nor is being out of control of one’s food. On my only previous hospital stay in Hawaii the food was unspeakable: little pre-packaged jellos and plastic spoons sliding [...]

A few weeks ago when I was blogging for eGullet I remarked on how puzzled I was to see a basket of turkey eggs in a herbalist stall in the wonderful San Angel Market in the south of the city. Well, thanks to my friend Ruth Alegria, all is now clear.
She turned [...]