Rachel Laudan

This Little Piggy Went to Market in Mexico City

By Rachel Laudan May 8, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food Politics, Mexican Food 22 Comments

Well, not just this little piggy, but that one and that one and that one too . . . 50,000 every single week. On our regular drives to Mexico City…

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The AfroMexican recipes from the Costa Chica of Guerrero

By Rachel Laudan April 25, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food History, Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food 7 Comments

A couple of preliminaries.  Now that I am on networked blogs on Facebook, I’m getting comments in both places.   I planning on doing the substantive replies here. So to Diana…

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Daily AfroMexican meals in the Costa Chica of Mexico

By Rachel Laudan April 23, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food 4 Comments

Here I’m translating from Francisca Aparicio Prudente’s ground breaking La Sazón de la cocina afromestiza de Guerrero. Or at least I am having a shot at translating because the region…

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