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The day I discovered k’nafeh: Mexican Lebanese cuisine

By Rachel Laudan October 2, 2011 Mexican Food, Taste 9 Comments

We were taking a day off from computers to stroll through the old colonial town of Coyoacán, now just part of Mexico City. We’d taken our shoes to the mender’s…

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Sesame Seed: From Mexico to the World

By Rachel Laudan September 12, 2010 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now, Taste 16 Comments

Just returned with a new jar of tahini from Café Jekemir, a delightful chain of Lebanese-Mexican coffee shops that have been in business since the 1930s here in Mexico City.…

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