Rachel Laudan

Here are more details on ginger beer by Michael Warshauer who has a nice blog (link below) on cooking in Mexico.  As he indicates, fresh ginger is widely available in Mexico, used both for medicine and in cooking, the latter much more frequently than cookbooks would suggest. I enjoy ginger beer, and once I located [...]

Real ginger beer is sharp and tingly with the plus of a little alcohol, not like its wimpy cousin, ginger ale.  You can come close with bottles of non-alcoholic ginger beer imported from Britain or the West Indies.  Or try your own. British schoolchildren, egged on by teachers and parents, used to experiment with ‘ginger beer [...]

And while we’re at it, here’s an enthusiastic review of Righteous Pork Chop by Nicolette Hahn Niman (yes, the Niman ranch Niman).  It’s  from Eat Me Daily, a blog that always has offbeat, interesting and well written articles. “From family farms brimming with healthy, free-range chicken, cattle and hogs, we steadily marched toward a Dickensian, [...]