Rachel Laudan

Continuing with my round up of comments, not in any particular order. Cindy Bertelsen talks about African women singing while they pound.  I bet it helps the rhythm. I would love, absolutely love, to hear it. From the start, I asked Mexican women about chatting while they grind.  Was grinding together a bonding experience? A [...]

So pleased to have Sam Sotiropoulos join the debate about whether Greek food owes anything to the British. Be sure to check his comments about how kumquats and probably potatoes came to Greece thanks to the British. I await posts about some dishes (other than pudding) that came with or without these foodstuffs.  And candied [...]

May for me prosper, through the sacrifice, milk, sap, ghee, honey, eating and drinking at the common table, ploughing, rains, conquest, victory, wealth, riches. Yajurveda, ca 800 BC There I am writing about the sacrifice in the history of food and I run across this account of the 5-year sacrifice of 250,000 animals in Nepal [...]