Rachel Laudan

1. How do you get the right balance of calories in and calories out, to use the phrase from Cindy’s comment on my earlier post? Very tricky.  Through most of history for most people there weren’t enough in.  They were short, they were skinny, and they didn’t live all that long. In recent years social [...]

“To make vicious and abandoned people happy it has generally been supposed necessary first to make them virtuous. But why not reverse this order? Why not make them first happy, and then virtuous?” Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford.  Born in the US, British loyalist in the American Revolution, made a Count by the Bavarian government for [...]

I’m sure there are some of you out there who can help me.  A large chunk of bread preparation that is almost unknown to me is the widespread practice of baking thin breads over a dome over a fire.  When I look it up in the most likely places, what I usually find are discussions [...]