Rachel Laudan

It’s a brown tomato.  It came in a plastic box with half a dozen confreres at my local Wal-Mart in Mexico City.  Inside it’s still brownish.  Tastes fine.  Disconcerting, a bit.  It was new to me. But here’s the back story on the demand for these tomatoes from the Wall Street Journal. (Thanks to Sonia [...]

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 few weeks ago I was in the Guanajuato Applebees (I know, seems incongruous, but there you are) waiting for a friend to turn up for breakfast.  Menus are primary research sources for food historians, so I was reflecting on the concessions an American chain makes when it moves to Mexico when I was brought [...]