Rachel Laudan

Mihaela Lica who has a blog “Romania: Simply Surprising” posted last year on the annual killing of pigs for the Christmas meal, the subject of some debate in the EU.  This year she contacted me again. “I am not sure if you are informed, but apparently the EU keeps allowing Romania to slaughter pigs in [...]

Here’s a post that just crept up on me. There was mention of carnitas at a wedding in the Mexican countryside. I read yet one more cookbook published in America describing how to make carnitas by cooking chunks of leg of pork in water until it evaporated and then frying. And I returned from a [...]

Traditional pig slaughtering in Portugal is one of the main themes on the web page of Portuguese anthropologist, Sandra Nogueira. It’s a web site well worth looking at and if you don’t read Portuguese a good bit is in English.