200 Years of Latin American Culinary Nationalism
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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Until recently Jewish Mexican cooking was unknown outside the 50,000 Mexican Jews, most of whom arrived in the early twentieth century. [EDIT. Here I am ignoring the Jews who came…
Read moreHow Mexicans are escaping rural poverty (and not going north)
The New York Times a couple of days ago had a long and well researched article on the slowing of Mexican migration to the United States. Yeah. Mexican…
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