Rachel Laudan

Edit.  I had planned this as a happy Christmas post. I had no idea that as I poked about in the world of bacalao I would find the fishy underside that I talk about at the end.  It left me slightly at a loss though, thinking some reality check on the extra-Norwegian world of imitations, [...]

“Difficulty between the United States and Great Britain about Wild Pigs.” How can anyone not love a title like that? It’s from the New York Times, May 23, 1854, p. 4. The story explains that American whalemen had killed a few wild pigs on one of the Falkland Islands and that England and America were [...]

  Last night I returned, exhausted, from three days at the conference on 200 years of culinary nationalism in Latin America in Guadalajara. It was excellent, even better than I expected.  The organizers, Sarah Bak-Geller and Esther Katz, had done an excellent job selecting the speakers.  Although very few of us knew each other before [...]