Rachel Laudan

I’ve just returned from the main annual meeting of a group called the International Association of Culinary Professionals in New Orleans. It’s an interesting umbrella organization that offers shelter to those interested in food who don’t find a natural home elsewhere. I rubbed shoulders with food stylists, journalists, owners of gourmet shops, tour [...]

Today I took a morning off work to explore. I live in Guanajuato, Mexico which was for hundreds of years one of the richest silver mining towns in the world. Figuring out how such an operation could work in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, without railroads or rivers for transport, a hundred and fifty [...]

Here’s a site on the history of the food of Greece. Mariana Kavroulaki’s postings, a preliminary to a book I really look forward to, are well- researched and full of engaging detail as one might expect from someone trained in sociology and archaeology.