Rachel Laudan

While Mexico and the Mediterranean countries are going for UNESCO recognition, Malaysia is plunging right in setting up food trucks in London and New York City.  Paul Rockover in the Daily Beast has an interesting description, linking Malaysia’s strategy to the one pioneered by Thailand. In 2010, Malaysia kicked off Malaysian Kitchen for the World [...]

Here’s something I’ve been wanting to post for some time.  This ad appeared in Honolulu in a weekly, The Polynesian, in June 1840.  If it’s hard to read the words, here they are: Good people all, walk in and buy Of Sam & Mow, good cake & pie: bread hard or soft, for land or [...]

After my post on the invention of the tourist luau, Henry Voigt (who has a wonderful collection of menus that was written up in Gastronomica) sent me scans of this luau menu and asked for some background. The story behind it is so poignant, it has had me gripped all day.  I’m simply going to [...]