Alcuscuz de maiz (Couscous of corn) in early nineteenth-century Mexico
You know, you read in cookbooks that this or that is the real or the best or the most authentic recipe for a certain dish. Then the more you poke…
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Thanks Susan, Adam and Paula for the comments on the couscous recipe I posted earlier today. I’ll return to those later. First I’ll talk about where this couscous recipe (title…
Read moreChristmas Eve in Guanajuato
Proof, if it were needed, of vast differences in Mexican cuisines. 1. A family in a rancho, a biggish village, about 10 miles from Guanajuato. For the evening meal on…
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