Rachel Laudan

Last week while I was thumbing through some of my books, I came across this lovely passage about whether cooking is a joy, a topic I’ve been kicking around for several weeks.
For the non-Americans on the list, The Joy of Cooking was one of the two or three iconic American cookbooks from the 1930s [...]

Here’s a story to mull over. It’s so good I’m not going to comment for now. Brigid Keenen is the wife of a British diplomat who wrote a book about her experiences. The humor is a particularly British kind that doesn’t appeal to everyone, though I was very glad of it on a [...]

Several commentators have raised the issue of servants and theft. My main interest in servants in this thread is not in a whole social history of servants which would take an encyclopedia. It’s on the difference servants (being them or having them) made to food and cooking and what we miss if we forget [...]