Rachel Laudan

In the market in Silao, Mexico, the very geographic center of Mexico, ten miles south of the the city of Guanajuato in the State of Guanajuato, the semilleros (seed shops) sell black eyed peas (Vigna unguicalata) along with all the usual Mexican beans. They call them veronicas.
You can see them in the sack at the [...]

Coca-Cola, originally uploaded by Simon Shek.
“Why can’t we put simple medicines or supplies into Coca-Cola crates? So wherever you can get a cola, you can get rehydration salts, malaria tablets, water purifiers, mosquito nets, whatever.”
Here’s the link.
If the Coke distribution network penetrates as far in Africa as it does in Mexico, this would certainly get [...]

A couple of preliminaries.  Now that I am on networked blogs on Facebook, I’m getting comments in both places.   I planning on doing the substantive replies here. So to Diana Buja, who worried about what was African about the daily meals, the answer is that so far as I can see not much here.
Second, several [...]