Rachel Laudan

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 [...]

Well, not just this little piggy, but that one and that one and that one too . . . 50,000 every single week. On our regular drives to Mexico City two hundred and fifty miles away, we pass pig truck after pig truck.   It’s often made us idly speculate about what it takes to supply [...]

What should the cook keep at hand?  Supermarkets and refrigerators have so revolutionized our habits in the last thirty years that it is hard to think back to earlier times.  I’ve become increasingly fascinated by pantries and larders and all the other places food gets stored.  And looking in to other pantries has a slightly [...]