Servants. The Missing Link in Culinary Change

Here’s a story about servants.  Brigid Keenen, wife of a British diplomat in waning years of the last century, wrote a memoir. Perhaps her particular kind of British humor does…

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Debate on Food Politicis in the LA Times

There’s an interesting debate on food politics in the LA Times this week.  On the one side you have Paul Roberts, who would have us spend more time in our…

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Greek Refreshments (Aguas Frescas)

Mariana Kavroulaki in here blog History of Greek Food has a couple of delightful posts on the Greek cousins to Mexican aguas frescas. Cannelada is cinnamon flavoured, in fact it’s…

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