Rachel Laudan

Acueducto de Querétaro Originally uploaded by laap mx In a couple of weeks we are leaving Guanajuato, moving to Queretaro. The photo shows part of the eighteenth century aqueduct that supplied the town with water. Querétaro (Ker-ET-a-ro) is a lovely city of one and half million people about two hours’ drive north of Mexico City. [...]

A lovely roundup of Christmas food blogs by Mike Licht (and check his blog year round for on-the-mark and entertaining graphics.  How does he do them, I wonder). A week’s worth of Christmas menus and stories from my fellow food history bloggers, Janet Clark and Cindy Bertelsen.  Their posts are always worth a read. And, [...]

Proof, if it were needed, of vast differences in Mexican cuisines. 1.  A family in a rancho, a biggish village, about 10 miles from Guanajuato. For the evening meal on the 24th Chicken soup Espagetti Chicken salad (soup and salad from a rotisserie chickens to leave time to prepare the dishes below) For guests, general [...]