Rachel Laudan

Cebadina–sebadina as it’s pronouced in English–has a lovely ring to it, doesn’t it? Bob Mrotek thought so too when he wrote this terrific post describing his detective work as he ran around the state of Guanajuato searching for cebadina. This is his story and it’s worth going to his site to read it.
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If you live in the US and have a burning desire to know more about Guanajuato you might want to check out the upcoming PBS program, Fiesta Mexicana, most of which was filmed here. The music is from all over Mexico but you will see our wonderful Teatro Juarez, perfect fin de siecle opera [...]

Here’s a link to an editorial called Your friend, the kitchen in today’s LA Times. A quick google shows that the author, Paul Roberts, has just produced a book called The End of Food as a follow up to an earlier book called The End of Oil. I’ve not read either of them. Doomsday literature [...]