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 [...]

A propos the comments on watching the killing of animals for meat, a couple of photos.

It is accompanied by shrink-wrapped “maiz para pozole,” that is, hominy for the classic meal in a bowl, pozole.

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 [...]