Rachel Laudan

Here’s an agua that I have never encountered in Mexico which is why there’s no name for it in Mexico.  And why there’s no drink of this kind, as we’ll see, is a bit of a puzzle. But an agua made from apricot leather is clearly part of the wide-flung family of fruit waters and [...]

Agua de jamaica (pronounced ag-wah de ham-ay-ca) is perhaps the most adorable of all the agua frescas.  It’s the dependabale agua you turn to when all else fails.  It’s made from the dried flowers of the Hibiscus sabdariffa (and that’s not the hibiscus that grows in tropical gardens so if you live where ornamental hibiscus [...]

Blogs are very funny things. For the last few days, the most popular has been a post on the famous malasadas of the Punahou carnival in Hawaii, malasadas that Obama must have eaten. Hardly a surprise. But I have yet to figure out why almost every day the most visited posting is one on a [...]