Flu and the Mexican Rural Community

Small rural communities in Mexico are getting world attention as the press points to La Gloria in Veracruz as a possible origin for the new strain of swine flu.  The…

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The End of Fasting: A Culinary Experiment

As a historian, I’ve always got an eye cocked for contemporary examples of changing ways of cooking and eating.  Often these are creeping and gradual.  But every so often something…

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Contract farming and small farms

Burundi and Mexico are still having problems connected via Word Press (my blog platform) so I’m just going to post an exchange Diana Buja (de Treville) and I had via…

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