A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
At least so says Lila Lomelí who is one of the great experts on Mexican food. That’s the answer to the question I posed last week about what regional Mexican foodstuff is in fact both recent and of Italian origin. Alex and Ji Young came close.
In the 60s and 70s she and her husband Arturo, [...]
Read: The Answer! Queso Oaxaca’s a Recent Child of Mozzarella
This question prompted much discussion on Marginal Revolution, the blog run by economists Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok. No one much liked the hypothesis of the study under discussion: that baby boomers with their dulling sense of taste need more spices.
No one specifically mentioned the 1965 Hart-Cellar immigration act which abolished national origin quotas [...]
Following up the post about American farmers moving to Mexico to get cheap reliable labor, I’d like to add some comments on the economics of leaving Guanajuato to work illegally in the States. You often read in the US newspapers that illegal workers who earn only a dollar or so an hour [...]
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