Rachel Laudan

No, says the Economist, talking about Brazilian (and by extension) many other traditional cuisines. Ready meals will become more popular: Brazilians still cook most meals from scratch, even though the country has some of the world’s biggest food-processing companies, which export their tins and sachets to America and Europe. Fine dining at home will largely [...]

A couple of months in the US has given me lots of time to ponder these differences which reveal so much about the way the two countries actually eat, as opposed to what we learn from cookbooks or tourist literature. Here I am comparing two supermarkets in south Austin (HEB and Randalls) and two in [...]

It’s a cliché that farm subsidies benefit large farmers at the expense of small farmers.  Now along comes Mike Smith of Truth in Food to offer a new way of looking at subsidies.  And anything that challenges a cliché is good with me if it’s based on evidence. As the chart below shows, while it’s [...]