Rachel Laudan

The Pacific is a terrifying ocean.  It’s not so much the storms.  The Indian Ocean and the north Atlantic, the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn trump it there.  It’s the sheer size.  Flying to Hawaii, when we lived there, and looking out the plane window every hour or so for the six hour [...]

A couple of weeks ago, my exuberant and observant friend Judith Klinger posted a non PC Italian advertisement for ice cream. It prompted me to post a Mexican rival, though this one aims to sell shoes, not ice cream. This ad of a model dripping with chocolate and holding a chocolate covered strawberry is for [...]

While I’m on the subject of aguas frescas, Bob Mrotek has a follow up post to his earlier post on cebadina including some interesting thoughts on why both tamarind and jamaica are traditionally ingredients. And while you’re at it you can learn about cebadina’s North American cousins, the family of fizzies. And scroll on through [...]