Rachel Laudan

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, [...]

Metates (”simple” grindstones) are one of my passions and I must post more on them. But today visiting the recently-opened archaeological site, Plazuelas, in the southern part of the state of Guanajuato, I saw a use for them that had me stunned.

OK, I realize that photo is not entirely clear. It’s the woman’s [...]

I missed this op-ed in the New York Times by Dan Barber when it appeared on Sunday. Sunday was our day for the Mexico City to Guanajuato run and thus not a day for sitting at the computer perusing the papers. I’m glad I missed it because I’d have spent the whole day [...]