Whether it is the middle of the afternoon or 9 in the evening and you feel like eating something salted and crunchy while watching your favorite game show or playing bingo, you have a vast array of snacks to choose from. The good news is that not all of them need to consist of the fattening and anything but healthy …
So You Want to Be a Pepper Farmer?
By Dave DeWitt [Editor’s Note: This piece of satire was written in 1993, so some of the estimated costs may have changed. Do you think they might have gone up?] After a particularly good harvest, many of us amateur pepper gardeners yearn to go pro. We dream of hitting the big leagues and making a fortune by growing and harvesting …
Vibrant Veggie Soups for Spring
“You can’t eat this soup standing up, your knees buckle.” – Jerry, in “The Soup Nazi” “The guy who runs the place is a little temperamental, especially about the ordering procedure. He’s secretly referred to as the Soup Nazi.” “Why? What happens if you don’t order right?”“He yells and you don’t get your soup.” – Jerry and Elaine, in …
Dining in Mexico in 1909
By William English Carson If a stranger is content to embark on a course of Mexican food and can stomach the highly seasoned dishes, filled with chilis and red peppers, he can get satisfactory meals at the Mexican restaurants, for some of the things which are served are piquant and excellent. But he must beware, for the dishes have a nomenclature …
The Hacienda That Chiles Built, c. 1815
The owner of this famous hacienda is a Creole, named Don Juan de Moncada. From the hacienda he takes the title of Marques. Previous to the revolution, he was considered among the richest of the landed proprietaries of Mexico, and in the year 1810 actually possessed in his own mansion six millions of dollars. The rent he derived from his …