Rachel Laudan

No, says the Economist, talking about Brazilian (and by extension) many other traditional cuisines. Ready meals will become more popular: Brazilians still cook most meals from scratch, even though the country has some of the world’s biggest food-processing companies, which export their tins and sachets to America and Europe. Fine dining at home will largely [...]

This post is in honor of the flood of stories about English tea provoked by today’s wedding.  I don’t have anything to say about the latter, since I see the Royals as an anachronism and a very pricey one at that.  But I do think of myself as something of an expert on the history [...]

Yesterday I talked with a fried who commented that Christmas was a time for memories.  So here are a couple of mine. As children, our Christmas stockings always had a tangerine in the toe. With luck we got a second from the wooden bowl in the breakfast room, its peel glowing, its juice so sweet [...]