Cebadina revisited yet again

Blogs are very funny things. For the last few days, the most popular has been a post on the famous malasadas of the Punahou carnival in Hawaii, malasadas that Obama…

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Agua Fresca 18. Venezuelan Horchata de Ajonjolí (Sesame)

Mariana Gómez, an anthropologist/sociologist wh teaches at the University of Zulia in Venezuela, sent me this letter in which she describes Venezuelan horchata. This version is made from sesame seeds.…

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Agua Fresca 17: Agua de Horchata de Semillas de Melón

Well now I’m on a roll with horchatas thanks to postings on the subject on the Association for the Study of Food and Society listserv. So it’s time to put…

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