Rachel Laudan

If you’re in Mexico, here’s a great-looking series on Latin American food coming up on the History Channel. It should be interesting, given how little known these cuisines are outside the region. I’ve no idea whether it will be shown in other countries or whether it will be translated into English. Thanks to Cristina Palacio [...]

Another Wall Street Journal article, this time on the reinvention of the Oreo in China. Of course, international food companies and fast food chains reinvent their products all the time in different countries. But this particular transformation of the Oreo, in the United States traditionally two round chocolate cookies/biscuits sandwiching a white creamy filling, into [...]

What happened A week or so ago I posted on the protests in Buenos Aires. Farmers, enraged by a new export tax on grains that meant that they would be paying 40% on their exports blocked the roads to the ports and and Buenos Aires. For several nights the urban middle class in a new [...]