Rachel Laudan

We first met Lynne some thirty years ago, long before she became so famous, when she came to visit her philosopher partner in our little university town. She swept in, determined to make the photographic best of her few days there. “Let me see the Yellow Pages,” she said, “and in a matter of hours [...]

Marie-Danielle Demas of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement en Bolivia (and of the Sorbonne) got the conference off to an exc ellent start with an overview of nationalism and theories thereof during the past couple of centuries. Any fear that the conference might take a simplistic approach to this has been dealt with.  [...]

  Black-eyed peas are one of  the four common dried beans and peas here in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, the other three being lentils, chickpeas and alubias (white beans). Because I wasn’t sure how they were served, I asked an expert, the butcher’s wife who sells them ready cooked. With a drizzle of olive oil. Or [...]