Rachel Laudan

To say that Leon, Guanajuato is not a tourist destination for non-Mexicans is to understate the matter.  A quick google throws up comments about the pollution, the traffic, and the very ordinary quality of its main product, leather goods (not true by the way). The Leather District Yet I’m fond of this town now of [...]

Maria, Adam, Laura, and Ji-young,  thanks for the comments. Maria, one of the occupational hazards of growing up English is that everyone just knows you have no cuisine, no cooking tradition.  As you can see, for large numbers of English people this simply wasn’t true.  They didn’t go to restaurants.  Hence it was difficult for [...]

Adam Balic recently posted one of his typically well-research articles about apple charlotte along with some trenchant comments about food and nationality. So is Apple Charlotte British? Well yes, obviously it is. If British people claim it as their own then that is the only important point. The fact that the history of the dish [...]