Rachel Laudan

This month, April 2008, I have a short article on the kitchens that I’ve worked in over the course of my life in the American food magazine, Saveur. You can’t access it on the web but if you should have the magazine it’s called Kitchenwise: A Peripatetic Food Historian Finds a Comfortable Roost in [...]

Have you ever thought of keeping a bird in the kitchen? I admit the thought had not occurred to me until this morning. Nor have I ever encountered anyone in the habit of having canaries in the kitchen.
Yesterday I bought some new saucepans. I wanted non-stick and the nicest I could find [...]

Kitchens seem to be quite the story this year. Well, it has to be said that the modern Western kitchen is a rather odd phenomenon embodying all kinds of contradictory hopes and desires.  These two pieces explore some of them.
Here’s Downstairs Upstairs from the Economist. And a review by Dominque Browning, former [...]