How to Make 3-D Gelatina

Several readers have asked where they can go to learn how to make the utterly amazing gelatinas they have seen in Mexico, like this captured in time cake, glorious flowers,…

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What is culinary heritage?

I’m supposed to know something about culinary heritage.   Exploring Hawaii’s Culinary Heritage is the subtitle of the book I published in the 1990s on the extraordinary foods of the Islands. …

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Serving couscous in Mexico in the 1800s

So how were the wheat couscous and the maize couscous (remember this is not sweet corn nor even cornmeal but essentially a crumbled tamal of maiz that has been treated…

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