Rachel Laudan

Food entrepreneurship is alive and well in Mexico. I am constantly amazed by the small start ups selling fruit cakes or home made flour tortillas or typical sweets or fruit liqueurs or crepes or cookies or, in this case, cheese. Penajamo, a small municipality (county roughly) in the state of Guanajuato in central [...]

When I arrived in the United States some considerable number of years ago, I was stunned by the dairy products. Stunned as with a stun gun, not with joyous amazement.
The only milk available was not just pasteurized but homogenized and had Vitamin D added as well. No lovely layer of cream rose to [...]

Cheese,  it is famously said, is milk’s leap toward immortality.  Sometimes.  But fresh cheeses kind of hop instead of leap.  So what did Mexicans do with their fresh cheeses before refrigeration?
MexicoBob took on the job of tracking down a Mexican cheese that did not feature in Los Quesos Genuinos Mexicanos. It’s called queso oreado [...]