Rachel Laudan

The Japanese are short of butter and considering emergency imports, according to the Wall Street Journal. How the worm turns, at least on the biggish historical scale.
A hundred and fifty years ago, it would have been the very rare person in Japan who would have had even the faintest clue what butter was. The [...]

One of the hardest things to figure out about food, if you live in the US, is how tastes are changing in other parts of the world. Cookbooks and food magazines spend most of their time exploring “authentic” traditional cuisines.
So it was great to find Farid Zadi’s summary of how Algerian Cuisine has changed [...]