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	<title>Rachel Laudan</title>
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	<description>A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics</description>
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		<title>Life versus Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things are moving fast here.  We are back in Mexico, will live in Mexico City not Queretaro, and have a complicated move coming up in the next few days.  That accomplished, I hope to start posting regularly again, working my way through a huge backlog of topics I have notes on: more on cous cous, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serving couscous in Mexico in the 1800s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So how were the wheat couscous and the maize couscous (remember this is not sweet corn nor even cornmeal but essentially a crumbled tamal of maiz that has been treated with alkali and ground wet) described in at least one Mexican manuscript cookbook of the early nineteenth century served?
Here&#8217;s what the anonymous author says about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachellaudan.com/2010/02/serving-couscous-in-mexico-in-the-1800s.html</link>
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		<title>A Mess of Links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, what all food historians have been waiting for.  Sandy Oliver, long time friend, moving force for years behind Food History News, author of authoritative books and articles on American Cuisine, and unassuming practitioner of  a traditional lifestyle for decades before it became the thing to do (think slaughtering and preserving your own pigs as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachellaudan.com/2010/02/a-mess-of-links-4.html</link>
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		<title>Alcuscuz de maiz (Couscous of corn) in early nineteenth-century Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know, you read in cookbooks that this or that is the real or the best or the most authentic recipe for a certain dish.  Then the more you poke around, the more you realize that there are all kinds of variants on the basic recipe.  Indeed I am not sure that is even the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcuscuz de trigo (Wheat couscous) in Nineteenth Century Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks Susan, Adam and Paula for the comments on the couscous recipe I posted earlier today.  I&#8217;ll return to those later.  First I&#8217;ll talk about where this couscous recipe (title as above) comes from.
It&#8217;s from a manuscript cookbook dated 1817 and compiled in Mexico, probably in San Luis Potosi.  The book was published in 2002 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Any thoughts on this couscous recipe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You take two liters of white flour, add to it half a liter of sieved whole wheat/coarsely ground flour, and put it all in a wide tray or kneading trough.  Have a jar of tepid salted water and a sprinkler.  Throw small sprays over the flour and with the hand extended, drag it gently, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving communal self-sufficiency in food.  Come. On.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A village on the western fringes of Hampshire is well on the way to becoming the first in England to defy the power of the supermarket by achieving communal self-sufficiency in food.
So at least says an article in last week&#8217;s Guardian.And to unreflective cheers of joy.
And, let me put this politely, it&#8217;s complete balderdash. Read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachellaudan.com/2010/02/achieving-communal-self-sufficiency-in-food-come-on.html</link>
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		<title>Bread, Beef and Civilization.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be talking about the global culinary crisis between 1880 and 1914 under that title in a history of science seminar offered in the history department of the University of Texas at 12 on Friday this week.  If you are in Austin and are interested let me know, and I will send details.
Meanwhile thanks for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachellaudan.com/2010/02/bread-beef-and-civilization.html</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name?  Rovellini or cutlet or schnitzel or milanesa?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just had this question from Bonna Flynn.
I’ve been on line looking unsuccessfully for a description/recipe which we’ve been making in my Italian family for 3 generations called Rovellini (sp?). It’s very thinly slice round or flank steak, pounded, then egged, breaded, and fried. It’s served either dry with lemon, or baked in a seasoned tomato [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rachellaudan.com/2010/02/whats-in-a-name-rovellini-or-cutlet-or-schnitzel-or-milanesa.html</link>
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		<title>A better standard of ordinariness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rachel, do you know when or where Jane Grigson said her wonderful thing about masterpieces and ordinariness? I’ve searched without success, and would like to verify it.
best,
mm
Mary Margaret Pack
Personal chef, food stylist and food writer
It is a wonderful quote, isn&#8217;t it. &#8220;We have more than enough masterpieces. What we need is a better standard of [...]]]></description>
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