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 [...]

For the past several weeks I’ve been perusing John F. Richards’ The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (California, 2005). There’s a lot of it to peruse. The book runs nearly 700 pages. For a food historian, the fascination is that this is the other side of food history. [...]