Rachel Laudan

Many thanks  to all the friends who have emailed, or facebooked, or called asking how we are. As you may have heard, Mexico City was shaken by a 5.7 earthquake just after midday today. Oh, and then there’s swine flu. At the best of times, Mexico is a huge cauldron for rumors.  Now its cup [...]

A couple of preliminaries.  Now that I am on networked blogs on Facebook, I’m getting comments in both places.   I planning on doing the substantive replies here. So to Diana Buja, who worried about what was African about the daily meals, the answer is that so far as I can see not much here. Second, [...]

Here I’m translating from Francisca Aparicio Prudente’s ground breaking La Sazón de la cocina afromestiza de Guerrero. Or at least I am having a shot at translating because the region is known for many local words and expressions and the glossary does not explain all of them.  I have also broken up the text where [...]