Rachel Laudan

Although I live in Mexico so that Mexican themes come up, Mexican food is not the focus of this blog. But I did do a guest blog last week on a week’s eating in Mexico. Here’s the link.

This question prompted much discussion on Marginal Revolution, the blog run by economists Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok. No one much liked the hypothesis of the study under discussion: that baby boomers with their dulling sense of taste need more spices. No one specifically mentioned the 1965 Hart-Cellar immigration act which abolished national origin quotas [...]

The makers of Swiss cheese, hitherto protected by export subsidies and import barriers, are now having to compete on the market. It took ten years of negotiation and persuasion. The idea is that cheese-makers should go up-market looking for discerning buyers perhaps as far afield as India or China. One enterprising cheese-maker, Walter Zaugg, even [...]