Haciendas in Guanajuato: Big Farming in Mexican History

Today I took a morning off work to explore. I live in Guanajuato, Mexico which was for hundreds of years one of the richest silver mining towns in the world.…

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The Power of Delia or Cheap Chicken Again

Delia Smith, that is. If you don’t live in Great Britain, you’ve probably never heard of her. So you don’t know that when she did a television cooking show on…

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Corn (Maize) Production and Importation in Contemporary Mexico

So much of food politics swirls around corn at the moment: denunciations of corn as the cause of growing obesity or the poster child for agribusiness; the problems of CM…

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