Rachel Laudan

Jean-Luc Crucifix The last few days I’ve been corresponding with several people about how to use the internet to record the cuisines of the humble. This site, Forgotten Recipies of the Venezuelan Andes strikes me as just a lovely example.  The collector and recorder, Gamal El Fakih Rodriguez, trained in the Hotel School of Mérida [...]

Samuel Palmer, Gleaning for Wheat under a Harvest Moon, 1833 from Feasts and Festivals Sometimes things just come together.  Last week I spent a good bit of time at a seminar on Nutritional Anthropology and more writing about how in nineteenth-century Europe, famines ceased to be a regular part of life, as well as going [...]

Here’s something I’ve been wanting to post for some time.  This ad appeared in Honolulu in a weekly, The Polynesian, in June 1840.  If it’s hard to read the words, here they are: Good people all, walk in and buy Of Sam & Mow, good cake & pie: bread hard or soft, for land or [...]