Rachel Laudan

At least so says Lila Lomelí who is one of the great experts on Mexican food.  That’s the answer to the question I posed last week about what regional Mexican foodstuff is in fact both recent and of Italian origin.  Alex and Ji Young came close.
In the 60s and 70s she and her husband Arturo, [...]

Rajagopal Sukumar, who often comments on this blog, just posted on the recent failure of the Doha round on his own blog. It has prompted an informed and discussion. I hope to contribute something to the discussion in the next couple of days. In the meantime, if you, like me, find it awfully [...]

Well, not around the neck but from the village in Italy, on to the ship, off load and reload in railroad cars, and then off load and slog up the mountain trails with a mule train.
This object, in the central highland of Veracruz, Mexico (near Huatusco)is, believe it or not, a mill for grinding maize [...]