Rachel Laudan

Don B. lives in a village about ten miles from Guanajuato in the state of Guanajuato in Central Mexico.  He began working the fields at age 8 and still tends his own milpa (patch of maize, beans and squash) producing enough maize each year for himself, his wife, and (I’ll have to check) his donkeys, [...]

With respect to GM maize: “Indigenous communities in Mexico, after lengthy discussions, are taking action. At times their moves are surprising:  for instance they have decided that contaminated maize should not be destroyed but treated as if it is sick, and treated until it is cured, even if this takes a hundred years or more.” [...]

How do you manage? puzzles this author. What could show more decisively how cooking habits have changed?   A hundred years ago a small army of home economists, salespeople, and cookbook authors were laboring away trying to persuade people to use a gas or electric oven. And that change still hasn’t happened for many Mexicans.  I’ve [...]