Rachel Laudan

  “And those?’ I asked, pointing to a pile of white things in the corner of the butcher’s counter.  “Salted bones,” she said, “huesos salados.” This was in a small market in Barcelona a few years ago.  For soup, explained the owner. So on my salt trail in Catalonia in northern Spain, I mull over [...]

And while we’re at it, here’s an enthusiastic review of Righteous Pork Chop by Nicolette Hahn Niman (yes, the Niman ranch Niman).  It’s  from Eat Me Daily, a blog that always has offbeat, interesting and well written articles. “From family farms brimming with healthy, free-range chicken, cattle and hogs, we steadily marched toward a Dickensian, [...]

Percentage rise in price in Mexican supermarkets from29 April to 5 May Chlorox   234 Mayo           27.7 Eggs             12.5 Fideos         21.6 Beans           54 Guavas        40   (on account of their high vitamin C content) Average number of carts in line for each cashier last weekend     15 Fall in sales of pork    70-90% Fall in price of live [...]