Rachel Laudan

A few days ago I found myself in hospital for a couple of days. Being out of control of one’s life is not pleasant. Nor is being out of control of one’s food. On my only previous hospital stay in Hawaii the food was unspeakable: little pre-packaged jellos and plastic spoons sliding [...]

For the past several weeks I’ve been perusing John F. Richards’ The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (California, 2005). There’s a lot of it to peruse. The book runs nearly 700 pages. For a food historian, the fascination is that this is the other side of food history. [...]