Rachel Laudan

Several of you have contacted me off list to find out if I’m actually still alive.  Well, yes.  Well, yes and in Honolulu.  Well, yes, and in Honolulu and on cloud nine.   Old friends, new friends, wonderful food, old haunts, new places.  Once in a lifetime is not an exaggeration.  I’ll say more over the [...]

Even at its outset, tipping engendered feelings of anxiety and resentment. In the mid-1800s, after leaving the Bell Inn of Gloucester, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle complained: “The dirty scrub of a waiter grumbled about his allowance, which I reckoned liberal. I added sixpence to it, and [he] produced a bow which I was near [...]

Yesterday Karen Resta Bateman posted a long comment that dealt with the enthusiastic efforts of certain colleges to embrace ethical dining.
Now Karen is no slouch when it comes to catering for organizations. She rose through the ranks to become executive chef at Goldman Sachs. So her comments are worth listening to. Leaving [...]