Rachel Laudan

A thread on the ever-interesting ASFS listserv threw up a link to this recipe for boza on a blog called Yogurt Land. Boza is another of those fascinating, fast-disappearing archaic grain drinks.
A photo shows a cup crowned with white bubbles of boza and a dusting of cinnamon, with roasted chickpeas on the side. This [...]

Poor chia. When you google it on the web you are assaulted by two kinds of sites.
1. Chia pets. If you’ve never encountered these, they are little toy animals, in the US made of pottery, in Mexico made of nylon stockings stuffed with sawdust, with chia seeds embedded in the toy. Water it and [...]

The last few days in Argentina have proved a bit more hectic than I anticipated.  Hence the lack of posts.  But I’ve got a whole lot in the pipeline:
Soy, Politics, Argentina and the Global Economy.  Reflections on the last couple of week’s of the farmers’ strike here in Argentina.
Reflections on the Food of Argentina (including [...]