Pénjamo. Mexican Goat Cheese Capital?

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…

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Thinking Through Pollan’s Farmer in Chief: Preliminaries

OK. Here’s what I am going to do. Michael Pollan had thirteen printed pages for his Farmer in Chief article in the New York Times Magazine. I can’t churn out…

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A Query about Banana Peel in Mexican Cooking

And one from Karen Howe. “In a Mexican manuscript cookbook dated 1908 which I bought at a flea market in Mexico, I found a recipe for banana peel stew. The…

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