Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

Alan Bennett on Wartime British Food

By Rachel Laudan January 11, 2020 English Food, Food History, Modern Food, Taste 4 Comments

I enjoyed playwright Alan Bennett‘s recollections in his 2019 diary in the London Review of Books, courtesy of The Browser. 11 February. A piece in the TLS by Laura Freeman about how…

My Mother Never Had to Go Grocery Shopping

By Rachel Laudan April 24, 2019 Bread, English Food, Food History, Modern Food 18 Comments

My story about how my mother and many others of her generation found cooking to be thankless and unremitting labor is consistently one of my most popular posts. Where my…

Trade, Trust and Madeira

By Rachel Laudan April 28, 2018 Drink, English Food, Food History, Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now, Taste 5 Comments

An age of commerce and civility was how many eighteenth-century thinkers, including the Scots Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson and Frenchmen such as Turgot, saw their own time. Unlike previous…

Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

Alan Bennett on Wartime British Food

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