Agua Fresca 20: Latte de Mandorla
Not Mexican but part of the great sprawling milky-substitute family, often known in Mexico as horchata. This one is from Sicily. This packet of sugar mixed with ground almonds makes…
Read moreAgua Fresca 19: Agua de Jamaica, The Basics
Agua de jamaica (pronounced ag-wah de ham-ay-ca) is perhaps the most adorable of all the agua frescas. It’s the dependabale agua you turn to when all else fails. It’s made…
Read moreCebadina revisited yet again
Blogs are very funny things. For the last few days, the most popular has been a post on the famous malasadas of the Punahou carnival in Hawaii, malasadas that Obama…
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