Eggs up, chicken up, beans up: trouble looms for food politics in Mexico
I was surprised several years ago in Mexico to discover that a kilo of eggs cost about the same as a kilo of tortillas, somewhere around a dollar for either.…
Read moreYou bet we’re capitalists
I just love my friend Nathalie Jordi’s riposte to a recent article in the NY Times by Adam Davidson in which he rather timidly suggests that many start-up artisan food…
Read moreSlow Food: The French Terroir Strategy, and Culinary Modernism
Slow Food, say its advocates, takes gastronomy to another and higher level. Somewhere between a latter-day religion and a political program, this version of gastronomy will save us from the…
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