What About Food Heritage?
Last week I attended a conference entitled Food: Heritage, Hybridity and Locality hosted by the American Studies Department at Brown University. It was a small conference, always the best, with…
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Until recently Jewish Mexican cooking was unknown outside the 50,000 Mexican Jews, most of whom arrived in the early twentieth century. [EDIT. Here I am ignoring the Jews who came…
Read moreBagels with guacamole: Jewish food in Mexico City
By contrast with the US where migrants are central to food history, it’s easy to get the impression that Mexican cuisine is simply a fusion of indigenous cuisines with colonial…
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