Rachel Laudan

One of the hardest things to figure out about food, if you live in the US, is how tastes are changing in other parts of the world. Cookbooks and food magazines spend most of their time exploring “authentic” traditional cuisines.
So it was great to find Farid Zadi’s summary of how Algerian Cuisine has changed [...]

That’s a question I have been asked several times. In my Mexican Kitchen’s Islamic Connection I mention only the Mughals.
Yes, clearly there was. Muslims conquerers had begun entering India around 1200, 300 plus years before the Mughals. The traveler Al-Biruni describes (more or less accurately) meals at the sultans’ courts. The [...]

Alimentación prehispánica: Legado milenario de sabores y saberes
A great series with many of Mexico’s most distinguished food scholars

Del miércoles 26 de septiembre al 28 de noviembre de 18:00 a 20:00 hrs.
26 de septiembre
Introducción al universo de cultura alimentaria prehispánica
Luis Alberto Vargas
3 de octubre
La milpa
Robert Bye
10 de octubre
La historia de la humanidad es [...]