Rachel Laudan

More from Adam Balic.  A strong tonic to current nostalgia.  And something I’ll be following up. It is worth remembering how much “Starving in Spring” dominated peoples lives until very recently. In fact in some cases it still dominates the terms we use in relation to food. Consider “Spring Lamb”, it is now a ubiquitous [...]

Food shopping in Mexico is changing so fast it’s hard to keep up. Every trip even to Sam’s and Costco offers lots of food for thought.  Here are three for today. 1. The big Italian pasta company Barilla is taking on traditional Mexican pasta.  Of course for ages the Wal-Mart chain has been selling Barilla [...]

Writing about the history of particular dishes is not my preferred way of doing food history.  I’d rather concentrate on whole cuisines. Even so there are some dishes that just cry out for study.  One of these is the thin slices of breaded (or egg and breaded) meat.  This shot around the globe (from Latin [...]