A dollar a bag
A couple of weeks ago Judith Klinger of Aroma Cucina asked what $10 would buy in the way of fruits and vegetables in her readers’ local markets. Here’s what I…
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I’d mentioned earlier that big dairies in Mexico were leary of buying from small producers whose quality standards they could not control. The current crisis with tainted Chinese milk powder…
Read morePreserving Milk in Mexican History: Sweets versus Cheese
And addendum to my post on cheese in Mexican history. A classic way of preserving milk in Mexico (as in India) was to boil it down until the milk sugars…
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