Rachel Laudan

Last year I wrote a series of posts on servants in the kitchen. A reader asked me to put them together, so here goes. 1. Lest We Forget: Servants in Culinary History Why we tend to forget servants and who servants were 2 Mistress and Servant Go to Cooking Class How the mistress learned to [...]

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 about servants.  Brigid Keenen, wife of a British diplomat in waning years of the last century, wrote a memoir. Perhaps her particular kind of British humor does not appeal to everyone, though I just love it, but that’s not the point here.  The point is her story about servants and recipes. Newly [...]