Rachel Laudan

Why don’t Indians make cheese? That’s come up in the discussion of Mexican cheese. I don’t have a knock down answer but I do have some thoughts on the worldwide distribution of cheese. First, let’s be clear about cheese. If you define cheese as the aged cheeses typical of Europe, then you are talking about [...]

Rajagopal Sukumar, who often comments on this blog, just posted on the recent failure of the Doha round on his own blog. It has prompted an informed and discussion. I hope to contribute something to the discussion in the next couple of days. In the meantime, if you, like me, find it awfully hard to [...]

Here’s a story about servants.  Brigid Keenen, wife of a British diplomat in waning years of the last century, wrote a memoir. Perhaps her particular kind of British humor does not appeal to everyone, though I just love it, but that’s not the point here.  The point is her story about servants and recipes. Newly [...]