Cooking Across Cultures, Classes, and Sexes in the 1930s: The Extraordinary Career of Mary Sia

When I taught at the University of Hawai‘i in the 1980s, I often wandered into the university bookstore during the lunch hour. Always on the shelf of local cookbooks was…

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How the menu at Mexico City’s most venerable Mexican restaurant was created

For nearly sixty years, guidebooks have described Fonda El Refugio in the center of Mexico City as a bastion of authentic Mexican cooking.  Now Nick Gilman explains where that authenticity…

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Current Trends in Mexican Restaurant Cuisine

“Sooner or later change had to come,” says José Carlos Capel, in an article in El País. The tasty Mexican culinary repertoire, one of the most varied in the world,…

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