Rachel Laudan

After my post on the invention of the tourist luau, Henry Voigt (who has a wonderful collection of menus that was written up in Gastronomica) sent me scans of this luau menu and asked for some background. The story behind it is so poignant, it has had me gripped all day.  I’m simply going to [...]

The gourmet was typically a rich male amateur to whom food was a passion. Foodies are typically an aspiring professional couple to whom food is a fashion. A fashion? The fashion. Couture has ceded the center ground to food. You don’t live with the same menu for years–you discover, embrace, explore minutely, get bored, and [...]

Oh my goodness, I actually have a day job.  And my head is whirling with questions of organic, and Mexican, and goodness knows what else.  And on the blog I have at least four promised and back listed posts.  So give me a bit of time.  All these questions are ones close to my heart [...]