Rachel Laudan

There’s an interesting debate on food politics in the LA Times this week.  On the one side you have Paul Roberts, who would have us spend more time in our friend, the kitchen.  On the other is by Jacob Grier whose blog reflects his interests divided between bar tender and resident at the Libertarian Cato [...]

Mariana Kavroulaki in here blog History of Greek Food has a couple of delightful posts on the Greek cousins to Mexican aguas frescas. Cannelada is cinnamon flavoured, in fact it’s very like Mexican horchata without the rice.
Lemonade, is, well, is lemonade. It apparently goes well with watermelon pie made with sesame seeds and honey. [...]

OK, so just forget for a moment that everyone tells you that to get Mexican cuisine you need to go to Oaxaca.
Here is a terrific program on the cuisine of Mexico’s northern frontier organized by the State of Chihuahua.  A very nice mix of well known scholars and regional specialists, of tastings and lectures. It’s [...]