Rachel Laudan

Samuel Palmer, Gleaning for Wheat under a Harvest Moon, 1833 from Feasts and Festivals Sometimes things just come together.  Last week I spent a good bit of time at a seminar on Nutritional Anthropology and more writing about how in nineteenth-century Europe, famines ceased to be a regular part of life, as well as going [...]

Here´s a comment from Myriam Mahiques, who explains herself below.  Here´s a link to Myriam Mahique´s  direct and refreshing blog, which I am thoroughly enjoying.  In response to Nick who suggested that meatballs in the Argentine were the dreaded American meatballs all over again, she explains why not. I´m an Argentine architect, living in California. [...]

Just look at this.  Wow.  Have to re-think lots of things. ca. 540 AD.  Recipe (not direct translation).  Take refined rice glutinous rice starch, add enough water to make a batter, heat a large pot of boiling water, set a copper pan in the water, push the pan to rotate it as you drop in [...]