Rachel Laudan

Nice, very nice actually, to be idea of the day in the New York Times blog.  The idea, in a nutshell, is that modern food is great, a huge improvement on the last 10,000 years.  Not perfect.  But reason to go forward, not wallow in nostalgia. Not exactly revolutionary you might think.  Well lots do.  [...]

1.  Did you know that if you were searching library catalogs for cook books, it was best to use “cookery book” as you key word, not “cook book.”  I didn’t. Compare libraries and Google. NY Public Library (from Rebecca). Vegetarian cookbook 25         Vegetarian cookery book 467 Google (thanks Larry).                      Vegetarian cookbook 928,000             Vegetarian cookery book [...]

Caption: These are Middle Stone Age food processing tools recovered from the Ngalue cave site, Mozambique. Credit: Grady Semmens, University of Calgary Usage Restrictions: None It used to be the story that farming and grain eating came along together 10,000 years or so ago. Then evidence of grass seed use in Israel and of granaries [...]