Rachel Laudan

I’ve just been reading Memories of Philippine Kitchens by Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan. It’s a simply wonderful book, heartfelt, informative and provocative.
Since I’ve been chatting with Amy on and off for years about the Acapulco-Manila connection, one of the things I was looking out for as I worked my way through the book [...]

I write this in large part in response to Colman Andrew’s interesting comment on my post on a recipe using Catalan picada. In it he concedes that mole has pre-hispanic origins but suggests some kind of interaction between Catalonia and the convents of Puebla where by legend the nuns invented the archetypal mole, mole poblano.
I [...]