Worried That Big Food Is Deciding What You Eat?

Take heart then, as I do, from this little book that I picked up in a small secondhand store in the south of Mexico City.   It was published in…

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Hunger is best sauce. Or the republican culinary tradition

If you google “hunger is the best sauce,” you’ll come across lots of variants (pickle, spice) as well as lots of attributions from Socrates to Cicero to Cervantes. It’s a…

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Truly Mexican

Now the move from Mexico City to Austin, Texas is largely behind me and there’s a whole month before the move back, I’ve had time to browse Roberto Santibañez’s Truly…

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