Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

Fruit and vegetables for Mexican markets and supermarkets

By Rachel Laudan September 29, 2011 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food History, Food Politics, Mexican Food 9 Comments

Carolyn writes. I wanted to find out more about your last paragraph about the mercados here in Mexico. I am currently studying abroad in Puebla Mexico and I’m an environmentalist…

How the menu at Mexico City’s most venerable Mexican restaurant was created

By Rachel Laudan September 28, 2011 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food History, Mexican Food 2 Comments

For nearly sixty years, guidebooks have described Fonda El Refugio in the center of Mexico City as a bastion of authentic Mexican cooking. Now Nick Gilman explains where that authenticity…

Nineteenth-century Puerto Rican cuisine in the Spanish world

By Rachel Laudan September 23, 2011 Food History, Mexican Food 3 Comments

I’d wanted to meet Cruz Ortíz for several years after reading his excellent book Puerto Rico en la olla:¿somos aún lo que comimos? (Madrid: Doce Calles, 2006). In that, he…

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A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

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