Rachel Laudan

Lots of information coming in from the comments, emails, google books, and my own library. I will try to absorb all this later today and post again tomorrow. Meantime, looks as if the Jesuits are out.

A couple of days ago I finally got around to reading Gary Nabhan’s book Arab/American.  I was entranced as Nabhan,  best known for his work on the ecology of the Sonoran desert, for foraging, and for support of local foods, explained how he kept finding parallels and resonances between the American southwest and Lebanon/Syria, the [...]

The Islamic-Christian culinary connection is one that fascinates lots of readers of my blog. So when I saw that Cathy Kaufman had published this piece in the IACP history of food newsletter, Prandial Post, I asked her if I could re-publish it here since many of you are not members of the International Association of [...]