Rachel Laudan

A couple of days ago, I had a sharp “oh no!” reaction to a Facebook thread where lots of people I respect were enthusing over the prospect that the famous Catalan chef, Ferran Adrià, was thinking about opening a Mexican restaurant in Barcelona.   And since I’ve been trying to figure out why my first reaction [...]

To quickly recap what I said in the first post of this series, Krugman uses the presumed awfulness of English food from the early nineteenth century to the 1980s to support his thesis of bad equilibria in market economies, that is, that good things may never be supplied because they have never been requested.  English [...]

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 [...]