Mexican Foodways at the University of Texas

Here’s the press release. New Speaker Series on History of Mexican Food Begins Event: “A Brief History of Tamales” Austin-based food writer Claudia Alarcón will explore the pre-Hispanic origins of…

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Leap frogging the Pacific: Chocolate and the Acapulco Galleon

The Pacific is a terrifying ocean.  It’s not so much the storms.  The Indian Ocean and the north Atlantic, the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn trump it there. …

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7. Loan dishes, loan ingredients.

This post is part of a series of questions (the earlier ones you can find here, here, and here) about what food historians could learn from historians of language at…

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