Desperately Seeking Authenticity

I finally got around to scanning and posting an article called desperately seeking authenticity that I published in the Los Angeles Times on 9 December 2001.  It was a lot…

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Corn (Maize) Production and Importation in Contemporary Mexico

So much of food politics swirls around corn at the moment: denunciations of corn as the cause of growing obesity or the poster child for agribusiness; the problems of CM…

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Home-cooked, delicious, and inexpensive main meals in Mexico

I was recently in on a conversation between a group of food writers, most of them English, about what kinds of delicious, inexpensive main meals for four people could be…

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