Mexican Bean Eating versus American Bean Eating

Following Rancho Gordo‘s lament for the decline of the bean in Mexico in comments on this blog, let me say I couldn’t agree more. If they continue to decline at…

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Declining Bean Consumption in Mexico

According to this morning’s León, Mexico newspaper AM, bean consumption per capita in Mexico has declined from 18.9 kilos a year in 1990 to 11.9 kilos a year in 2006. …

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Haciendas in Guanajuato: Big Farming in Mexican History

Today I took a morning off work to explore. I live in Guanajuato, Mexico which was for hundreds of years one of the richest silver mining towns in the world.…

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