Rachel Laudan

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What’s happening to Mexico’s traditional markets?

By Rachel Laudan September 8, 2011 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Mexican Food, Modern Food 10 Comments

Mexico City’s neighborhood markets, the rowdy, smelly vibrant landmarks of concrete and corrugated tin that sell everything from cactus salads to pinatas, are struggling as more Mexicans migrate to the…

Two nineteenth-century kitchens: Mexico and China

By Rachel Laudan September 5, 2011 Food History 4 Comments

Photographs of old kitchens are not that common so I was delighted to come across this one. In the early twentieth century, Mineral de la Luz was a boom…

200 Years of Latin American Culinary Nationalism

By Rachel Laudan September 1, 2011 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food History, Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food, Modern Food 5 Comments

In a couple of weeks, I’m off to what should be a really interesting conference on nationalism and cuisine in Latin America. For the first time ever, historians and anthropologists…

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