Rachel Laudan

Sorry, folks.  I hit the publish on this before I meant to.  In any case an interesting story in Slate.  I’d actually put the beginnings of the Japanese move to wheat at the beginning of the twentieth century.  That established the idea that wheat was good and strengthening, laying the foundations for the  big increase [...]

So now from urbanization to industrialization, the second of the two culprits that Paul Krugman fingers for the awfulness of English food. 1.  Perhaps Krugman means that the British industrial revolution was responsible for industrialized food.  I don’t think he can because the dates are all wrong. At least in its classic period, usually, if [...]

A couple of years ago I heard Aaron Bobrow-Strain give a fascinating talk at a conference at the University of California, Davis about American white bread in the Cold War. So when I was offered a chance to participate in the blog tour for his new book White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought [...]