Rachel Laudan

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mending woks with molten iron and a bit of paper or felt.  Pretty amazing stuff.  Don Wagner, who is the person on Chinese metallurgy, sent me a link to a page he has put together on historical and contemporary accounts and photos of the Chinese tinkers who mended woks.  Here’s the link. On the culinary [...]