Rachel Laudan

Here’s my stab at an answer, or rather a couple of answers.  I’ll concentrate on Europe but I think the same would apply in most places grains are used (except perhaps Africa and Mexico, because maize is a bit different). Answer One. Whole grains are hard on the system. Today we don’t eat many grains [...]

  Delicious beef head tacos from El Torito (the little bull). On right. Macisa.  Solid meat Trompa.  Muzzle Cachete. The meaty bits below the eyes and between the ears and mouth. Ojo. Eye Lengua. Tongue Surtida.  A mixture   On left. Suadero.  Smooth, soft meat from above the udder or penis Longaniza.  Spicy sausage (of [...]

We were taking a day off from computers to stroll through the old colonial town of Coyoacán, now just part of Mexico City. We’d taken our shoes to the mender’s tiny shop, jammed with machines and glues and dyes. We’d bought pecans and sliced almonds (almendras fileteadas is the lovely Spanish expression) from the shop [...]