Rachel Laudan

Just look at this.  Wow.  Have to re-think lots of things. ca. 540 AD.  Recipe (not direct translation).  Take refined rice glutinous rice starch, add enough water to make a batter, heat a large pot of boiling water, set a copper pan in the water, push the pan to rotate it as you drop in [...]

Thank you everyone who has responded here, and on Facebook or Twitter, or via personal emails. Once again, I am amazed at the way these tools speed up intellectual interaction.   Soon the days that I remember when you sent off a letter and waited weeks for response and even then could never gather up the [...]

I’m probably the last person in the world to see Hokusai’s wave in waving rice (duh), since these kinds of stories fly round the web in a moment.  But if you are another laggard, click on this link which is one of the more informative one, or just google “Inakadate” or “rice field art in [...]