Rachel Laudan

What is culinary heritage?

By Rachel Laudan May 17, 2010 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food History, Food Politics, Mexican Food, Modern Food 23 Comments

I’m supposed to know something about culinary heritage.   Exploring Hawaii’s Culinary Heritage is the subtitle of the book I published in the 1990s on the extraordinary foods of the Islands. …

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Queretaro here we come

By Rachel Laudan December 30, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 4 Comments

Acueducto de Querétaro Originally uploaded by laap mx In a couple of weeks we are leaving Guanajuato, moving to Queretaro. The photo shows part of the eighteenth century aqueduct that…

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Christmas Eve in Guanajuato

By Rachel Laudan December 22, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Mexican Food No Comments

Proof, if it were needed, of vast differences in Mexican cuisines. 1.  A family in a rancho, a biggish village, about 10 miles from Guanajuato. For the evening meal on…

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