Splendid Food for a Mexican Wedding

Anyone living in a foreign country cannot resist a little (or a lot) of amateur anthropologizing. I listen avidly to my walking companions’ descriptions of the round of groups, pot…

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My Kitchen in Saveur

This month, April 2008, I have a short article on the kitchens that I’ve worked in over the course of my life in the American food magazine, Saveur. You can’t…

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Mexican Bean Eating versus American Bean Eating

Following Rancho Gordo‘s lament for the decline of the bean in Mexico in comments on this blog, let me say I couldn’t agree more. If they continue to decline at…

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