The Cuisine of Mexican Convents
As someone once said to me, in the eighteenth century well-to-do Mexican families were as determined that one of their daughters become a nun in a major convent as twentieth-century…
Read moreMole Once More: The Class Issue
One objection that comes up time and again when people discuss my theory about the Islamic origins of mole poblano is this: how come, if mole was introduced by the…
Read moreWhere does Mole Come From? From the Mediterranean or from Mexico?
I write this in large part in response to Colman Andrew’s interesting comment on my post on a recipe using Catalan picada. In it he concedes that mole has pre-hispanic…
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