Agua Fresca 24: Nigerian Horchata and the Diffusion of Islamic Cuisine

I haven’t posted about the cold drinks known in Mexico as agua fresca (fresh or cool water) in ages. Today though a post on Kitchen Butterfly’s blog (highly recommended, by the…

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Codswallop. Something Fishy from the British Library

“A long-lost medieval cookbook, containing recipes for hedgehogs, blackbirds and even unicorns, has been discovered at the British Library. Professor Brian Trump of the British Medieval Cookbook Project described the…

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Agua Fresca 21: Agua de Viernes de Dolores

Can I really have been blogging for more than three years?  In that time I have moved from the colonial town of Guanajuato in central Mexico to the huge metropolis…

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