Rachel Laudan

    The New York Times a couple of days ago had a long and well researched article on the slowing of Mexican migration to the United States. Yeah. Mexican is getting wealthier.  In fact Mexico is now 80% urban, something that has a lot to do with this.  Peasants eking out a living on [...]

Jeremy Cherfas over at Agrobiodiversity mentioned that I thought there were traces of the agricultural techniques of Medieval Islam in Mexico (and presumably the rest of Latin America). I don’t think there is any doubt about this.  Quite a few scholars, both English- and Spanish-speaking have looked at this.  Here’s just a start. Irrigation and [...]

Cow Parade Lala ‘pastarán’ en León, originally uploaded by RightIndex. Yesterday Lala, one of Mexico’s major milk producers, known for scattering life-size model cows around major Mexican cities, purchased National Dairy, the US company that owns the Borden and Dairy Fresh brands. Here’s an interesting story on how Lala got going. There is a saying [...]