Servants in the Kitchen: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t

Some years ago, Saveur magazine, which was running a series on kitchens, asked to include my kitchen in Mexico. I wrote and re-wrote a short piece and they sent a…

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Will there be a return to servants?

Megan McArdle at the Atlantic, following Arnold King, asks this. Why hasn’t rising inequality resulted in in the much-predicted oligarchy?  Or to put it as he does: with so many…

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Mistress and Servant Go to Cooking Class

I have a friend who has a friend who has a sister or cousin, I’m not quite clear which, who runs a cooking school  in Guadalajara, Mexico. That’s only three…

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