Rachel Laudan

Well now I’m on a roll with horchatas thanks to postings on the subject on the Association for the Study of Food and Society listserv. So it’s time to put up another Mexican horchata, one made with melón (most commonly cantaloupe) seeds.
You save cantaloupe seeds (from the cantaloupe you have used for agua de [...]

An interesting program if you happen to be in Mexico City  (click on the image a couple of times and you will see it full size).

Cheese,  it is famously said, is milk’s leap toward immortality.  Sometimes.  But fresh cheeses kind of hop instead of leap.  So what did Mexicans do with their fresh cheeses before refrigeration?
MexicoBob took on the job of tracking down a Mexican cheese that did not feature in Los Quesos Genuinos Mexicanos. It’s called queso oreado [...]