Rachel Laudan

I’m shamelessly copying from Steve Sando, whom many of you know for his superlative beans, who is equally shamelessly copying from Diana Kennedy, whom many of you know for her cookbooks that record the recipes of late twentieth century Mexico. I’m just tagging along on this one.  I would say that juice is the wrong [...]

A slight tingle, a flinty taste, verging on sour.  What is this?  A moment of confusion. I am taken back to English pubs in the west country before urbanization and gastropubs hit, when there was bread and cheddar and scrumpy.  Scrumpy, a local cider, alcoholic of course, actually very alcoholic sometimes, had that tingle that [...]

Here are more details on ginger beer by Michael Warshauer who has a nice blog (link below) on cooking in Mexico.  As he indicates, fresh ginger is widely available in Mexico, used both for medicine and in cooking, the latter much more frequently than cookbooks would suggest. I enjoy ginger beer, and once I located [...]