Rachel Laudan

Last week while I was thumbing through some of my books, I came across this lovely passage about whether cooking is a joy, a topic I’ve been kicking around for several weeks.
For the non-Americans on the list, The Joy of Cooking was one of the two or three iconic American cookbooks from the 1930s [...]

Here’s a link to an editorial called Your friend, the kitchen in today’s LA Times. A quick google shows that the author, Paul Roberts, has just produced a book called The End of Food as a follow up to an earlier book called The End of Oil. I’ve not read either of them. Doomsday literature [...]

An interesting side effect of the “food crisis” (I’m still not sure I like that name) is that the hunt is on for agricultural land outside the nation state. The New Zealand dairy cooperative is looking to rent or buy land in, say, Brazil. The Chinese are looking for farm land in Africa and [...]