Rachel Laudan

He was just a little boy.  He lived in the country.  So why were brown spots spreading on his skin, why were his joints swollen and aching, why were his gums bleeding? No one knew.  Nobody had a cure. His mother ignored the nutritional advice of the day, advice that suggested that all that a [...]

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 [...]

I just love my friend Nathalie Jordi’s riposte to a recent article in the NY Times by Adam Davidson in which he rather timidly suggests that many start-up artisan food businesses are capitalist enterprises in the making.  The co-owner of People’s Pops has had it with the standoff between small, local and virtuous and large, [...]