Who’s a farmer?
Farmers are now good news. When I was a kid they were not. They were hicks, people with dirt under their fingernails. Now they are honored. But which farmers? Here’s…
Read moreWhy jamon serrano is not a cured meat (according to the USDA)
By arbitrarily removing salt and sugar from their rightful place as chemical compounds, the USDA eliminates hundreds of products that are traditionally cured with one or both of these chemicals. So, in the obfuscating terminology of…
Read moreHow Mexicans are escaping rural poverty (and not going north)
The New York Times a couple of days ago had a long and well researched article on the slowing of Mexican migration to the United States. Yeah. Mexican…
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