Rachel Laudan

Note. If you’ve been to this page before, I’ve now (pm 5 december) edited the figures. Many thanks Larry.   I’ve just been reading E.A. Wrigley‘s Energy and the English Industrial Revolution which I highly recommend if you are interested in the transformation wrought by fossil fuels. In passing, he gives these figures for the [...]

So here’s Nicola Twilley’s transcript of  Fueling Mexico City: A Grain Revolution, the talk I gave at Postopolis 2010 last week in Mexico City.  Do go to her post too because in addition to the transcript, she has great reflections on (and photos of) our afternoon wandering through the shops, supermarkets and small restaurants of [...]

The NY Times today had an article on (finally) a place in New York that is making tortillas from maize not from Maseca. If that sounds like double dutch to you, here’s a two sentence primer. Tortillas made of maize are made by heating the maize with alkali, then wet grinding the result, called nixtamal.  [...]