Rachel Laudan

Thanks to a friend who just returned from a tour of southern Africa.

Here’s a question. In classic French cooking (and much Western cooking) savory and sweet dishes mirror one another. That is, you can have sweet or savory souffles and pastries of various kinds. You have sauces and custards based on similar and often identical techniques. You have gelatin showing up as aspics [...]

A couple of weeks ago, my exuberant and observant friend Judith Klinger posted a non PC Italian advertisement for ice cream.
It prompted me to post a Mexican rival, though this one aims to sell shoes, not ice cream.

This ad of a model dripping with chocolate and holding a chocolate covered strawberry is for the Plaza [...]