Rachel Laudan

This post is in honor of the flood of stories about English tea provoked by today’s wedding.  I don’t have anything to say about the latter, since I see the Royals as an anachronism and a very pricey one at that.  But I do think of myself as something of an expert on the history [...]

Cow Parade Lala ‘pastarán’ en León, originally uploaded by RightIndex. Yesterday Lala, one of Mexico’s major milk producers, known for scattering life-size model cows around major Mexican cities, purchased National Dairy, the US company that owns the Borden and Dairy Fresh brands. Here’s an interesting story on how Lala got going. There is a saying [...]

Food entrepreneurship is alive and well in Mexico. I am constantly amazed by the small start ups selling fruit cakes or home made flour tortillas or typical sweets or fruit liqueurs or crepes or cookies or, in this case, cheese. Penajamo, a small municipality (county roughly) in the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico has [...]