Rachel Laudan

Mole’s on my mind again (find previous posts by clicking on the tag “mole”). Last night I was lucky to attend a reception with Patricia Quintana prior to the mole festival here in Guanajuato. Not surprisingly in her eloquent history of mole, she affirmed that the basic techniques were  indigenous with some Islamic ingredients added [...]

Should you be willing to kill what you eat? Is this a precondition for eating meat? Monica Eng doesn’t just ruminate about this but actually turns up to watch cattle, pigs, chicken, and fish killed and even kills her own crabs. Here’s the link to “morality bites.” It’s an interesting tour, or perhaps pilgrimage would [...]

I had a good laugh about this post today–meow.