Rachel Laudan

Here’s a link that lists some of the pieces of art that have disappeared from Mexico recently, particularly from churches.  It makes very sad reading. What are not included in this list are manuscript cookbooks. Many of the great convents in Mexico still have magnificent manuscript cookbooks from the eighteenth century.  These are not only [...]

I have a friend who has a friend who has a sister or cousin, I’m not quite clear which, who runs a cooking school  in Guadalajara, Mexico. That’s only three degrees of separation, right? These are not just any old cooking classes, mind you. She offers cooking classes for young society ladies who are about [...]

If you have spent any time in the United States in the last fifty years, you’ll have some idea of the awe and affection that Julia Child inspires. It all started with a cook book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, that she wrote with greater or lesser degrees of help from Simone Beck and [...]