Rachel Laudan

Ready for more on the thin pastry sheet trail that we’ve been discussing on this blog in the last couple of weeks.     Ammini Ramachandran sent a fascinating video of an Indian thin pastry from Andhra, India. Then Uma Satyavolu sent these memories of pootarekulu, as these sheets are called.  Not so much on how [...]

Not much.  Just enough to know that the standard story has to be revised. My long-time friend and fine scholar and anthropologist, E.N. Anderson, told this story in The Food of China (1988). “Wok is a Cantonese word; the Mandarin is kuo. The wok appears to be a rather recent acquisition as Chinese kitchen furniture [...]

Mole’s on my mind again (find previous posts by clicking on the tag “mole”). Last night I was lucky to attend a reception with Patricia Quintana prior to the mole festival here in Guanajuato. Not surprisingly in her eloquent history of mole, she affirmed that the basic techniques were  indigenous with some Islamic ingredients added [...]