Can Traditional Cuisines Survive Without Servants?

No, says the Economist, talking about Brazilian (and by extension) many other traditional cuisines. Ready meals will become more popular: Brazilians still cook most meals from scratch, even though the…

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Bacalao for Mexican Christmas Dinner: A Fishy Tale

Edit.  I had planned this as a happy Christmas post. I had no idea that as I poked about in the world of bacalao I would find the fishy underside…

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Christmas and Class

I was chatting with Mexican friends the other day about the mountains of glossy catalogs that are delivered with newspapers in the weeks running up to Christmas.  It prompted me…

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