Rachel Laudan

Or at least as true as I can make it. A hundred years ago, Barcelona was booming, textiles factories were spinning, the well-to-do had a social round of balls, country excursions, racing. Women shopped for new furniture, fancy clothes, fine china.  Everyone socialized in restaurants and cafes that served French dinners and te anglaise, owned [...]

If you can talk about as American as apple pie, a dish that was surely not American in origin, then you can talk about as Catalan as canelons (cannelloni). They are everywhere.  Butcher’s shops have foil boxes of gratineed canelons ready to be cooked at home. So do grocery stores and the many take out [...]

Here´s a comment from Myriam Mahiques, who explains herself below.  Here´s a link to Myriam Mahique´s  direct and refreshing blog, which I am thoroughly enjoying.  In response to Nick who suggested that meatballs in the Argentine were the dreaded American meatballs all over again, she explains why not. I´m an Argentine architect, living in California. [...]