Rachel Laudan

I’m not given to nostalgia.  But once in a while I want some faint taste of the foods of my youth.  And in my family, tea was the best of all meals.  Tea came at the end of the work day, except during the long, hard days of harvesting,  Tea came at the end of [...]

Mihaela Lica who has a blog “Romania: Simply Surprising” posted last year on the annual killing of pigs for the Christmas meal, the subject of some debate in the EU.  This year she contacted me again. “I am not sure if you are informed, but apparently the EU keeps allowing Romania to slaughter pigs in [...]

Not much.  Just enough to know that the standard story has to be revised. My long-time friend and fine scholar and anthropologist, E.N. Anderson, told this story in The Food of China (1988). “Wok is a Cantonese word; the Mandarin is kuo. The wok appears to be a rather recent acquisition as Chinese kitchen furniture [...]