Rachel Laudan

Today I took a morning off work to explore. I live in Guanajuato, Mexico which was for hundreds of years one of the richest silver mining towns in the world. Figuring out how such an operation could work in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, without railroads or rivers for transport, a hundred and fifty [...]

Back to the Mexican dishes called moles.  Confusion reigns.  Often when talking about mole, people mean mole poblano, the rich reddish sauce of spices (including chocolate), chiles, tortillas that is made in the city of Puebla.  Sometimes they mean the famous seven moles of Oaxaca.  Sometimes they include moles made all across Mexico.  But do [...]

Delia Smith, that is. If you don’t live in Great Britain, you’ve probably never heard of her. So you don’t know that when she did a television cooking show on how to boil an egg, 54 million more eggs than normal were sold in the next few days. Since the population of [...]