Rachel Laudan

I am constantly amazed at the numbers of people who sit at their (say) Toshiba computers on a chair from Ikea or Office Depot wearing Levis and drinking Coke and then rhapsodize about the small farm, the two acres of organic veggies in Westchester County (which for those of you who don’t live in the [...]

Earlier I posted on my reactions to the standoff between Argentine farmers and the government over a proposed export tax on grains of around 40%. Given the widespread reporting on the “food crisis” I have been amazed how little attention has been paid to this conflict which has, or now had, major implications for the [...]

Metates (“simple” grindstones) are one of my passions and I must post more on them. But today visiting the recently-opened archaeological site, Plazuelas, in the southern part of the state of Guanajuato, I saw a use for them that had me stunned. OK, I realize that photo is not entirely clear. It’s the woman’s bathroom [...]