Rachel Laudan

Mr Keys* and his Spanish friends located in the United States dedicated themselves to promoting the benefits of a [Mediterranean] diet that was only strictly followed in Crete and that . . . with the passage of time . . . became transformed into the Mediterranean “style of life.” In the first half of the [...]

Of all the difficult things to turn into food (and most plants and animals are difficult to turn into food), cacao beans and their processing rank way up there. Let’s leave to one side the fermenting and cleaning and just think about the grinding of cacao. Because of the oil content, grinding cacao beans is [...]

Linguists have analyzed when and how languages expand. Only rarely is it by the natural growth of the original group that speaks the language (the Pacific Island case). More often it is by military or spiritual conquest.  Take the spread of Spanish and Portuguese throughout the world and their transformation into different varieties, Barranquenho, a [...]