Rachel Laudan

Cuisine and Language 8. Are There Creole Cusinese?

By Rachel Laudan January 17, 2011 Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 4 Comments

Continuing with my list of ten things that culinary historians might learn from historians of language, we come to number 8, are there such things as creole cuisines.[i] I’m not…

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Regional Cuisine as Cultural Inertia. From Adam Balic

By Rachel Laudan January 6, 2011 Food History, Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now, Oddities and Things that Don't Fit No Comments

In huge haste because I’m on the point of driving to the US and my (expletives deleted) Mac Book computer is on the brink, but I really wanted to send…

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Mexican-American Flappers-Lazy at the Metate

By Rachel Laudan January 5, 2011 Food History, Food Politics, Grinding No Comments

Flappers with bobbed hair in 1920s America were not just Anglos.  Mexican Americans in Texas also bobbed their hair. Here’s a translation of a song, Las Pelonas, the bobbed hairs. …

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