Rachel Laudan

Tasting of Guanajuato cheese tonight

By Rachel Laudan November 27, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Mexican Food, Modern Food No Comments

For all those readers who are far, far away from Guanajuato, take this as one more indication of the huge ferment in local food businesses of high quality in this…

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Why didn’t Mexico abandon the metate?

By Rachel Laudan November 23, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Bread, Grinding, Mexican Food 6 Comments

Third or fourth pass grinding barley on a metate Lots more questions than I can take up.  But one that several commentators have raised is “Why did the simple grindstone…

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Puddings in comtemporary Mexico

By Rachel Laudan November 6, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food History, Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food 5 Comments

One last post on this and I will shut up.  In Ricardo Muñoz’s great Diccionaria enciclopedica de la gastronomía mexicana (2000), it’s clear that the budín/pudín distinction is no longer…

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