Rachel Laudan

I’ve been neglecting aguas frescas recently. But last week the garden yielded a bumper crop of pomegranates (granadas). The insects are arriving for their share. Snakes in every Eden.

If you’ve ever tackled a pomegranate, with its tough outer skin and its white membrane that cocoons each individual seed, you know that it’s not [...]

A couple of weeks ago Judith Klinger of Aroma Cucina asked what $10 would buy in the way of fruits and vegetables in her readers’ local markets.
Here’s what I got from the ladies seated in front of the Alhondiga in Guanajuato yesterday. This is not a place for bargaining. The plastic bag makes [...]

What athletes eat, or arctic explorers, or astronauts is always fascinating. It pushes the bounds of the possible while at the same time reflecting the culture’s ideas about good food. So the Olympics is reason to just consider the food of athletes.
Athletes in the first Olympics were famous for consuming quantities of meat, [...]