Mexican Salsas and North African Harisa

Inspired by Kyla Wazana’s post on harisa, in my ongoing quest to explore connections between Mediterranean and Mexican cooking, I finally got around to making some to see how it…

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Betting on foreign buyers: Liberalizing the Swiss cheese trade

The makers of Swiss cheese, hitherto protected by export subsidies and import barriers, are now having to compete on the market. It took ten years of negotiation and persuasion. The…

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You know there’s a global market when . . .

You go to the big supermarket, Mega, in Guanajuato, Mexico and pick up some crisp asparagus. Not such a surprise because for the last fifteen or twenty years this region…

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