World Food History: Six Food Histories I Found Essential

I love lists of good books, especially if they refrain from inflated claims about being the best books. There are so many good books out there, they are so diverse,…

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Latin American Cuisine: Unity Beyond the Nation

Every so often a cookbook comes along that offers a fresh vision of the world’s culinary geography, a vision that transcends national boundaries. In Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of…

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The Islamic Contribution to Mexican Cuisine

When Mexico’s leading writer, Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz, arrived in New Delhi in 1962 to take up his post as ambassador to India, he quickly ran across a culinary…

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