Rachel Laudan

That’s the question posed by Princeton ethicist Peter Singer in his new book.  Here’s Easterly’s review. My thoughts?  That would need a longer and more reasoned discussion. Let’s just say I am not in general persuaded by Singer.  And I think giving to charity is very, very tricky.  But those are just promissory notes.

Some years ago I was contacted by a bright-eyed (or at least so I imagined since we’ve never met in person) graduate student, Anne Bramley, who was balancing a PhD dissertation on Shakespeare with a then-incredibly innovative podcast series on food, history and culture called Eat Feed.  She had the good sense to bring on [...]

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 [...]