Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

Thinking about the Land: A Personal Perspective on the Origin of Organic Farming

By Rachel Laudan August 5, 2019 Farming 9 Comments

Almost a hundred years ago “on a misty Boxing Day [26th December] in 1926, a dozen young men assembled at a hamlet in Wiltshire [in southwest England] for their annual…

Maida Heatter and Molly O’Neill, RIP.

By Rachel Laudan June 18, 2019 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food Politics, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens, Taste 3 Comments

Two fine food writers, each of them important to me in very different ways, have died in the past few months. What better way to remember them than by turning…

My Mother Never Had to Go Grocery Shopping

By Rachel Laudan April 24, 2019 Bread, English Food, Food History, Modern Food 18 Comments

My story about how my mother and many others of her generation found cooking to be thankless and unremitting labor is consistently one of my most popular posts. Where my…

Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

Thinking about the Land: A Personal Perspective on the Origin of Organic Farming

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