Rachel Laudan

Here’s something I’ve been wanting to post for some time.  This ad appeared in Honolulu in a weekly, The Polynesian, in June 1840.  If it’s hard to read the words, here they are: Good people all, walk in and buy Of Sam & Mow, good cake & pie: bread hard or soft, for land or [...]

It’s a brown tomato.  It came in a plastic box with half a dozen confreres at my local Wal-Mart in Mexico City.  Inside it’s still brownish.  Tastes fine.  Disconcerting, a bit.  It was new to me. But here’s the back story on the demand for these tomatoes from the Wall Street Journal. (Thanks to Sonia [...]

I’m supposed to know something about culinary heritage.   Exploring Hawaii’s Culinary Heritage is the subtitle of the book I published in the 1990s on the extraordinary foods of the Islands.  I’d like to say that I had pondered long and hard over the title. The truth is that “culinary heritage” just sounded better than alternatives [...]