Rachel Laudan

I’ve edited this piece, added a few things, and changed the title. Wikipedia has a short and clear article on agribusiness, contrasting two ways in which it is used. The first is neutral. Within the agriculture industry, agribusiness is widely used simply as a convenient portmanteau of agriculture and business, referring to the range of [...]

Rolling right along with the series on what culinary historians might learn from linguists, see the background at the end of this post. Languages die out.  The world is littered with dead languages, most of which are unknown to us.  Cuisines die out.  We no longer have the cuisine of Shang China, nor of the [...]

Rachel, do you know when or where Jane Grigson said her wonderful thing about masterpieces and ordinariness? I’ve searched without success, and would like to verify it. best, mm Mary Margaret Pack Personal chef, food stylist and food writer It is a wonderful quote, isn’t it. “We have more than enough masterpieces. What we need [...]