Rachel Laudan

If you were a muleteer…pinole and other roasted powders

By Rachel Laudan December 6, 2009 Bread, Drink, Food History, Mexican Food 5 Comments

Muleteers were not people I’d thought about much until a few years ago.  Yet 14,000 mules worked the silver mines in the eighteenth century in Guanajuato where I now live. …

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Bread first or beer first? A bad question

By Rachel Laudan November 21, 2009 Bread, Drink, Food History, Grinding 6 Comments

Which came first, bread or beer? The very possibility that we brewed beer before we baked bread sounds–well–it sounds sexy.  How titillating to think that people rushed to make something…

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Agua Fresca 23: A Mutt of an Agua Fresca

By Rachel Laudan July 19, 2009 Drink 3 Comments

I’m shamelessly copying from Steve Sando, whom many of you know for his superlative beans, who is equally shamelessly copying from Diana Kennedy, whom many of you know for her…

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