Rachel Laudan

Thanks to all who have brought mole poblano and the medieval Mediterranean up again and for the clarifying comments.
Here are my thoughts on what I take to be Tim’s three main worries.
Worry 1. Since many families in rural Mexico have their own mole traditions, since these families often tend to the indigenous end of the [...]

Lots of interesting material in this web site that deals largely, though not exclusively, with the Spanish-speaking world.

For a couple of years, I’ve been interested in the ensaimada (the en-larded), a sweet bread associated with Mallorca and Minorca in Spain that also crops up in the Philippines.
This afternoon, trotting into a confitería in Buenos Aires, in search of sweet things for my husband, I spotted, lo and behold, a shelf of ensaimadas. [...]