Rachel Laudan

I just love my friend Nathalie Jordi’s riposte to a recent article in the NY Times by Adam Davidson in which he rather timidly suggests that many start-up artisan food businesses are capitalist enterprises in the making.  The co-owner of People’s Pops has had it with the standoff between small, local and virtuous and large, [...]

Slow Food, say its advocates, takes gastronomy to another and higher level. Somewhere between a latter-day religion and a political program, this version of gastronomy will save us from the widely-recognized problems associated with modernity. Slow Food is founded on the purported revelation that pursuing pleasure protects the environment, creates a sustainable agriculture, preserves culinary [...]

Mr Keys* and his Spanish friends located in the United States dedicated themselves to promoting the benefits of a [Mediterranean] diet that was only strictly followed in Crete and that . . . with the passage of time . . . became transformed into the Mediterranean “style of life.” In the first half of the [...]