Rachel Laudan

Like 99% of the blog-following population, I learn a lot from Marginal Revolution.   But it’s not economics we’re talking about here.  It’s a couple of links from Tyler Cowen that I loved. 1. Unforgettable sentence from Ezra Klein of the Washington Post. “Foodies have an unfortunate tendency to alight on a Unified Field Theory of [...]

I am beginning to get canned messages from various groups involved in food politics.  Up to now I have posted them.  But I am issuing a warning.  This is a personal blog, one where I try to understand the past and the present of food.  And I think most of my readers are in the [...]

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 [...]