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Alcuscuz de maiz (Couscous of corn) in early nineteenth-century Mexico

By Rachel Laudan February 16, 2010 Food History, Grinding, Mexican Food 22 Comments

You know, you read in cookbooks that this or that is the real or the best or the most authentic recipe for a certain dish.  Then the more you poke…

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Christmas Eve in Guanajuato

By Rachel Laudan December 22, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Mexican Food No Comments

Proof, if it were needed, of vast differences in Mexican cuisines. 1.  A family in a rancho, a biggish village, about 10 miles from Guanajuato. For the evening meal on…

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