Rachel Laudan

Life has brought me many, many trips away from home–well over thirty on last count–in Europe, the United States, Australia and Latin America.  We have done this as academics, on visiting appointments or sabbaticals.  Business people, the military, and freelancers probably do it too. It is a wonderful way to travel. You spend two to [...]

Exqueixada, a dish of shredded salt cod was the star of the first course.  It’s a Catalán classic, available ready prepared in the market, though our friend Jordi dismissed the very idea that he might buy it ready made instead of making it himself.  Quite the best salt cod dish I have ever tasted. There [...]

Here’s a must read article on the UNESCO designation of the Mediterranean Diet as intangible patrimony of humanity from the excellent Food in Italy blog run by Zachary Nowak with Dr. S. Young.  Here’s just a sample of his take down of this initiative. What is truly striking, though, is the lack of a definition [...]