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 [...]

Thank you everyone who has responded here, and on Facebook or Twitter, or via personal emails. Once again, I am amazed at the way these tools speed up intellectual interaction.   Soon the days that I remember when you sent off a letter and waited weeks for response and even then could never gather up the [...]

Thanks so much for so many comments.  I’ll be replying properly when I have done my “real” work for the day.  But one more example to throw into the discussion, thanks to Ammini Ramachandran, who always has interesting information to add. Rachel: A similar thin pastry is prepared with rice ground with water to a [...]