Rachel Laudan

You know, you read in cookbooks that this or that is the real or the best or the most authentic recipe for a certain dish.  Then the more you poke around, the more you realize that there are all kinds of variants on the basic recipe.  Indeed I am not sure that is even the [...]

Proof, if it were needed, of vast differences in Mexican cuisines.
1.  A family in a rancho, a biggish village, about 10 miles from Guanajuato.
For the evening meal on the 24th
Chicken soup
Espagetti
Chicken salad (soup and salad from a rotisserie chickens to leave time to prepare the dishes below)
For guests, general goodwill.
Atole (maize gruel)
Pozole (soup of hominy, [...]

Happy Christmas to all and especially to all those who have commented on my blog this year.
Just yesterday Sra Cruz Reyes Ramos sent me this wonderful story about pinole (toasted maize ground to a flour) as a Christmas treat.  I’ll leave it with you.

When I was about 4 yrs old ( I distinctly remember) in [...]