200 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…
Read moreCulinary heritage: Embera cuisine (Panamá)
Here’s a really long overdue post, promised to Chef Lastino Apochito a year ago when I was visiting Panama City for the quite fascinating first Panamá Gastronómica. He approached me…
Read moreWhy jamon serrano is not a cured meat (according to the USDA)
By arbitrarily removing salt and sugar from their rightful place as chemical compounds, the USDA eliminates hundreds of products that are traditionally cured with one or both of these chemicals. So, in the obfuscating terminology of…
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