Rachel Laudan

No, says the Economist, talking about Brazilian (and by extension) many other traditional cuisines. Ready meals will become more popular: Brazilians still cook most meals from scratch, even though the country has some of the world’s biggest food-processing companies, which export their tins and sachets to America and Europe. Fine dining at home will largely [...]

Megan McArdle at the Atlantic, following Arnold King, asks this. Why hasn’t rising inequality resulted in in the much-predicted oligarchy?  Or to put it as he does: with so many unemployed, and income increasing faster among the affluent, why aren’t people hiring more servants?   Or to put it more personally, would you hire a [...]

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 [...]