Two nineteenth-century kitchens: Mexico and China
Photographs of old kitchens are not that common so I was delighted to come across this one. In the early twentieth century, Mineral de la Luz was a boom…
Read more200 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…
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