Rachel Laudan

For a couple of years, I’ve been interested in the ensaimada (the en-larded), a sweet bread associated with Mallorca and Minorca in Spain that also crops up in the Philippines.
This afternoon, trotting into a confitería in Buenos Aires, in search of sweet things for my husband, I spotted, lo and behold, a shelf of ensaimadas. [...]

A couple of days ago, following a suggestion of Adam Balic, I made a dish from Catalonia that uses techniques and ingredients that are very similar to those used in making Mexican mole. It also followed up on a conversation with a young woman in Catalonia earlier this year. She launched into [...]