Variety, Discrimination, and Mexican Breads
For a long time I’ve been interested in how perceptions of variety in food have shifted as countries have become more prosperous. In particular, variety comes to be seen as…
Read moreThe Supply Side Problem with Insects as Food
Chatting this morning with an advocate for increasing insect consumption among humans, I was reminded that I have long thought there was a largely unacknowledged stumbling block to this…
Read moreWhich Mexico? Which Mexican Cuisine?
It’s Day of the Dead again. It’s a lovely custom that I enjoyed in Mexico. Many of the customs associated with the Day of the Dead, though, are neither universally nor…
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