Rachel Laudan

Where did these storefront restaurants with the $7 meals of some kind of teriyaki or sesame chicken, yakisoba or California rolls come from? What the relation with the Hawaii plate lunch. Here’s a well-researched article by Jonathan Kauffman.

Following up the post about American farmers moving to Mexico to get cheap reliable labor, I’d like to add some comments on the economics of leaving Guanajuato to work illegally in the States. You often read in the US newspapers that illegal workers who earn only a dollar or so an hour [...]

In thinking about Islamic culinary traditions in India, one of the books I’ve found most useful is Richard Eaton’s The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier 1204-1760 (University of California Press, 1994). OK, it’s not about the courts of the Sultans or the Mughals. OK, it hardly mentions food. But it [...]