Rachel Laudan

Anyone living in a foreign country cannot resist a little (or a lot) of amateur anthropologizing. I listen avidly to my walking companions’ descriptions of the round of groups, pot lucks, baby showers, children’s parties, birthday parties and other events that they attend and that tie together life in the Mexican provinces.
I’ll spare you [...]

This, my friends, is a nice glass of barley water, milky in color, so mild in flavor as to be almost tasteless, a little body on the tongue, and one of the most ancient foods you are ever likely to run in to, the point where archaic drinks find common ground with the aguas frescas.

Long, [...]

If you have spent any time in the United States in the last fifty years, you’ll have some idea of the awe and affection that Julia Child inspires. It all started with a cook book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, that she wrote with greater or lesser degrees of help from Simone Beck and [...]