Photograph: Laurie Smith In a way, Lent is like New Year’s Day –you give up things that you shouldn’t be having any way, like chocolate or drinking, usually with the hope of losing weight. But observant people do... (Continue reading)
Dried shrimp. These are one of the major ingredients in the cooking of the indigenous peoples of Oaxaca. Centuries before the Spanish came, the Huaves and other coastal peoples were harvesting shrimp from southeastern bays and lagoons. Most of the... (Continue reading)