Rachel Laudan

Was the English breakfast invented in the mid nineteenth century?  That’s the worry Adam Balic, who is as profoundly informed about the history of British food as anyone I know, expresses about my report of Kaori O’Connor’s English Breakfast. And he adds some wonderful quotations as evidence. Mea culpa.  I said that the heyday of [...]

Not only is it possible to create a false memory of a food that made you sick, that supposed memory changes your behavior for a long time.  Interesting study from many perspectives: psychology, ethics, and dieting too.

Here’s a call for papers from an interesting group.  I’m not a wine person (well, to drink but the history is a whole specialty unto itself) but I find many of their articles and working papers enlightening.  And now they are starting a food group too.  Well worth a look even if you have no [...]