Rachel Laudan

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 [...]

“Salvadorans are fiercely loyal to their horchata, made from the seeds of morro, a green, hard-shelled fruit that looks like a coconut. . . .
The morro grows on a wide-branched tree, part of the calabash family. The small, gourdlike fruit stands out because it is attached directly to the tree’s trunk and branches. For farming [...]

Mole’s on my mind again (find previous posts by clicking on the tag “mole”).
Last night I was lucky to attend a reception with Patricia Quintana prior to the mole festival here in Guanajuato. Not surprisingly in her eloquent history of mole, she affirmed that the basic techniques were  indigenous with some Islamic ingredients added later. [...]