Rachel Laudan

  Photographs of old kitchens are not that common so I was delighted to come across this one.  In the early twentieth century, Mineral de la Luz was a boom mining town with a number of well-to-do houses.  This I suspect was one because the door is open to the dining room where someone (a [...]

This week’s Economist has a fascinating piece on what Chinese tourists seek out in Europe.  And at just the point where you are beginning to think the author is being a tad condescending about their apparently strange choices (Trier for Marx´s birthplace, Metzinger for Hugo Boss suits), he (or she) restores our confidence by pointing [...]

Just look at this.  Wow.  Have to re-think lots of things. ca. 540 AD.  Recipe (not direct translation).  Take refined rice glutinous rice starch, add enough water to make a batter, heat a large pot of boiling water, set a copper pan in the water, push the pan to rotate it as you drop in [...]