Rachel Laudan

I have a friend who has a friend who has a sister or cousin, I’m not quite clear which, who runs a cooking school  in Guadalajara, Mexico. That’s only three degrees of separation, right? These are not just any old cooking classes, mind you. She offers cooking classes for young society ladies who are about [...]

If you have spent any time in the United States in the last fifty years, you’ll have some idea of the awe and affection that Julia Child inspires. It all started with a cook book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, that she wrote with greater or lesser degrees of help from Simone Beck and [...]

Today the question of servants is an embarrassing one. We pussyfoot around the very mention of the word “servant.” It’s just so politically incorrect. Few people in modern America or Europe (or Canada, Australia, or New Zealand) have servants in the house. Perhaps they have a cleaner who whizzes through once a week, perhaps they [...]