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Couscous. Can’t-Miss Festival and Origins of Mexican Couscous

By Rachel Laudan September 17, 2010 Food History, Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food, Modern Food, Taste 4 Comments

I’m green with envy.  I would give anything to be in Los Angeles on the 16th and 17th October, for the  couscous festival, run by Susan Ji-Young Park, a frequent…

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Alcuscuz de maiz (Couscous of corn) in early nineteenth-century Mexico

By Rachel Laudan February 16, 2010 Food History, Grinding, Mexican Food 22 Comments

You know, you read in cookbooks that this or that is the real or the best or the most authentic recipe for a certain dish.  Then the more you poke…

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