Seeing Stars: Popcorn Revisited
In the Sonora desert of Mexico, the Yaquis still make popcorn the traditional way, a technique anthropologists say goes way, way back before tortillas, probably before tamales. The nights are…
Read moreParallel Universes: The Fería del Libro in Guadalajara
For the second time this year, the first being in Panamá Gastronómica, I’ve had the feeling of being in a universe parallel to the English-speaking world. Great events, well-attended (half…
Read moreCuisine & Language 2. Mutual unintelligibility means different cuisines
Languages, just like cuisines, come in infinite gradations, each individual speaking or eating his own variant. So how do linguists decide when two languages really are different? One way of…
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