Rachel Laudan

A lovely roundup of Christmas food blogs by Mike Licht (and check his blog year round for on-the-mark and entertaining graphics.  How does he do them, I wonder).
A week’s worth of Christmas menus and stories from my fellow food history bloggers, Janet Clark and Cindy Bertelsen.  Their posts are always worth a read.

And, for Spanish-speaking [...]

Last week Onkel Bob posted a long response to my post, Bread first or beer first? A bad question. He made several interesting points but the most important point, to which he kept returning, was “How did agriculture start at all?” or “What prompted widespread fields?”
That’s an interesting question.  But in my opinion it is [...]

A clutch of tejocotes (te-ho-COT-es) with a plum tomato by their side to give you a sense of scale.  They look like minature golden apples, don’t they? Doll’s apples.
So it’s a little sad that when you bite into one, it’s really not great.  Woolly not crisp, fairly tasteless.

Here’s one I’ve nibbled and you can [...]