Comments on: Servants. The Missing Link in Culinary Change http://www.rachellaudan.com/2008/06/why-have-we-forgotten-the-servants-a-story.html A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:28:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ji Young http://www.rachellaudan.com/2008/06/why-have-we-forgotten-the-servants-a-story.html/comment-page-1#comment-974 Ji Young Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:28:45 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=391#comment-974 I think if one looks at the socio-economic realities of past kitchens as well as historical food production, distribution and storage infrastructures-- they point to SERVANTS! I think if one looks at the socio-economic realities of past kitchens as well as historical food production, distribution and storage infrastructures– they point to SERVANTS!

]]> By: rajagopal sukumar http://www.rachellaudan.com/2008/06/why-have-we-forgotten-the-servants-a-story.html/comment-page-1#comment-973 rajagopal sukumar Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:58:55 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=391#comment-973 Interesting post Rachel. I didn't know about Madhur Jaffrey's background. This post goes well with your thesis that most cookbook writers of the past had servants. Interesting post Rachel. I didn’t know about Madhur Jaffrey’s background. This post goes well with your thesis that most cookbook writers of the past had servants.

]]> By: Ji Young http://www.rachellaudan.com/2008/06/why-have-we-forgotten-the-servants-a-story.html/comment-page-1#comment-972 Ji Young Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:15:13 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=391#comment-972 “Food—good food—just appeared miraculously from somewhere at the back of our house in Delhi . . . A bearer, turbaned, sashed, and barefooted would announce the meal and soon we would all be sitting around the dinner table, a family of six,” says Madhur Jaffrey." I won't go into the entire back story about my comment. But on a related note I remember my parents talking about the abundance of their family tables before the Korean War. Both wondered what happened to all the leftovers that "just disappeared to the back of the house (or rather compound)" Um, forgotten servants? “Food—good food—just appeared miraculously from somewhere at the back of our house in Delhi . . . A bearer, turbaned, sashed, and barefooted would announce the meal and soon we would all be sitting around the dinner table, a family of six,” says Madhur Jaffrey.”

I won’t go into the entire back story about my comment. But on a related note I remember my parents talking about the abundance of their family tables before the Korean War. Both wondered what happened to all the leftovers that “just disappeared to the back of the house (or rather compound)”

Um, forgotten servants?

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