Rachel Laudan

Blogs are very funny things. For the last few days, the most popular has been a post on the famous malasadas of the Punahou carnival in Hawaii, malasadas that Obama must have eaten. Hardly a surprise.
But I have yet to figure out why almost every day the most visited posting is one on a [...]

Mariana Gómez, an anthropologist/sociologist wh teaches at the University of Zulia in Venezuela, sent me this letter in which she describes Venezuelan horchata. This version is made from sesame seeds. (She also described some other aguas, but I’ll keep those for another post).
It’s interesting to see that Venezuelan chicha is what Mexicans [...]

Well now I’m on a roll with horchatas thanks to postings on the subject on the Association for the Study of Food and Society listserv. So it’s time to put up another Mexican horchata, one made with melón (most commonly cantaloupe) seeds.
You save cantaloupe seeds (from the cantaloupe you have used for agua de [...]