The humble grasshopper can tell us much about labour. Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them, Jeffrey H Cohen, 2025, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Tag: Food
Let them eat cake
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Hunger in Mexico’s countryside belies the wealth of its cuisine—and guess who is to blame? México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality, Enrique C Ochoa, 2025, University of Arizona Press
The spirit of value
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Mexican mezcal raises a glass to ‘enrichment’ capitalism. Mezcal in Oaxaca: A Craft Spirit for the Global Marketplace, Ronda L Brulotte, 2025, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Food for thought
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Traditional indigenous knowledge is key to beating food insecurity. Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways: Indigenous Traditions as a Recipe for Living Well, Mariaelena Huambachano, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, Peru, South America
Culinary colonialism
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The corporate takeover of Mexican food is identity theft on a vast scale. Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines, edited by Verónica Pérez Rodríguez, Shanti Morell-Hart, and Stacie M. King, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States