Rachel Laudan

Real ginger beer is sharp and tingly with the plus of a little alcohol, not like its wimpy cousin, ginger ale.  You can come close with bottles of non-alcoholic ginger beer imported from Britain or the West Indies.  Or try your own. British schoolchildren, egged on by teachers and parents, used to experiment with ‘ginger beer [...]

Just a couple of weeks late, here’s a very special agua made just once a year for Viernes de Dolores, the Friday before Good Friday.  Although officially this day is in memory of the many sorrows of the Virgin Mary, in Guanajuato it’s one of the biggest festivals of the year.  The photo above shows [...]

Guayaba is the Spanish for guava.  Guava is not a common fruit in the US.  Perhaps the fact that it is full of hard seeds is the reason, along with the fact that it grows in tropical climates.  I once read that in India they are called the fruit of the poor because the rather [...]