Rachel Laudan

Here I’m translating from Francisca Aparicio Prudente’s ground breaking La Sazón de la cocina afromestiza de Guerrero. Or at least I am having a shot at translating because the region is known for many local words and expressions and the glossary does not explain all of them.  I have also broken up the text where [...]

What would Afro-Mexican cuisine look like?  I always like to ask that question in advance of digging in to a new cuisine as a kind of test.  How much can one infer from the history? So I go to the question with experience of Ibo cuisine in the Niger Delta where I spent some time [...]

For me, all this puts the debates about the US Agricultural Secretary in a shining global light. “Goat meat is the most widely consumed meat in the world. That’s right, goat meat! Approximately sixty-three percent of the world’s total meat consumption can be credited to goat meat and it is estimated that eighty percent of [...]