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Of Cowboys and Indians and Nineteenth-Century America

By Rachel Laudan June 13, 2013 Food History, Globalization Then and Now, Hawaiian Food 9 Comments

What could be more American than gliding along perfect roads at eighty mph, roads so perfect that the dry, rocky terrain slips past like a movie?  I’ve been doing a…

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Semitas in California (and Other Semita Matters)

By Rachel Laudan March 22, 2008 Food History, Mexican Food 21 Comments

I’ve been pursuing the semita trail for the last several years and a very interesting trail it is too. Breads called semita or cemita pop up all over Latin America…

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