Rachel Laudan

Dried Shrimp Heaven

By Rachel Laudan August 17, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Mexican Food 1 Comment

A young colleague from Nayarit just walked into my study with this huge bag of dried shrimp from her Pacific Coast state. Snuck a few, still chewy, not too salty.…

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Small Food Businesses as a Way Up in Mexico

By Rachel Laudan August 17, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Mexican Food, Modern Food 1 Comment

Now let’s go up the social scale a bit and return to food. Every Monday the local paper AM runs a section called Valor Agregado (Added Value) about local León…

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More on Getting out of Poverty in Mexico

By Rachel Laudan August 17, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary 7 Comments

I’d like to expand a bit on Mexico Cooks (a quite gorgeous and informative blog by the way) comment on microloans and on the Mexican poor in general which she…

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