Rachel Laudan

A few weeks ago I was in the Guanajuato Applebees (I know, seems incongruous, but there you are) waiting for a friend to turn up for breakfast.  Menus are primary research sources for food historians, so I was reflecting on the concessions an American chain makes when it moves to Mexico when I was brought [...]

The fact that a movement like SF – anti-progressive, antiscientific, worshipping the traditional societies, fond of the little, stratified and perennial communities in which the place of each is eternally fixed and immutable, uncaring and ignorant of history and of the reality of the relations of production, and thus incapable of seeing the inextricable contradictions [...]

Cow Parade Lala ‘pastarán’ en León, originally uploaded by RightIndex. Yesterday Lala, one of Mexico’s major milk producers, known for scattering life-size model cows around major Mexican cities, purchased National Dairy, the US company that owns the Borden and Dairy Fresh brands. Here’s an interesting story on how Lala got going. There is a saying [...]