Rachel Laudan

Are you planting? That’s a polite question to ask a Mexican campesino in late spring. The answer increasingly, at least in this region, is no. No, said Chuy, the horse died. No, said Emilia, three years out of seven there’s not enough rain and so it’s just not worth it. [...]

So much of food politics swirls around corn at the moment: denunciations of corn as the cause of growing obesity or the poster child for agribusiness; the problems of CM crops; the economics of biofuel; and how American corn politics affects other parts of the world.
And of these other parts of the world, few are [...]

Pinole gives me shivers up the spine. When I eat it or drink it, I am transported back through the millenia to travelers, warriors, muleteers.
So what is pinole? To make it you toast grains of maize until cooked and gold-brown. Then you grind them on the metate (saddle quern, simple grindstone) [...]