Rachel Laudan

Here’s my stab at an answer, or rather a couple of answers.  I’ll concentrate on Europe but I think the same would apply in most places grains are used (except perhaps Africa and Mexico, because maize is a bit different). Answer One. Whole grains are hard on the system. Today we don’t eat many grains [...]

My mother grew up in straightened circumstances in Wiltshire, England. Her father died when she was two, a victim of the post World War I flu epidemic, and her mother (my grandmother) got by with a tiny pension, taking in lodgers, and help from her brother and sisters since it was not respectable for widows [...]

Maize is getting such bad press at the moment in the United States.  But it is such a wonderful grain, so flexible, so many appealing products. Arepas, as you doubtless know, are the national dish, the daily bread of Venezuela (and other parts of Latin America).  I’d had the Panamanian variety last year and was [...]