Rachel Laudan

Tortas are those rolls bulging with beans, avocado, jalapeño, cheese, meats and pretty much what the imagination allows that you can buy on street corners in Mexico (and that is shown in the bottom right of the poster).  And tomorrow, May Day, is, it turns out, the day of the hard-working torta maker, the tortero. [...]

This post is in honor of the flood of stories about English tea provoked by today’s wedding.  I don’t have anything to say about the latter, since I see the Royals as an anachronism and a very pricey one at that.  But I do think of myself as something of an expert on the history [...]

Lots of information coming in from the comments, emails, google books, and my own library. I will try to absorb all this later today and post again tomorrow. Meantime, looks as if the Jesuits are out.