Rachel Laudan

Your Friend, The Kitchen. Really?

By Rachel Laudan May 21, 2008 Food History, Food Politics, Modern Food, Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 13 Comments

Here’s a link to an editorial called Your friend, the kitchen in today’s LA Times. A quick google shows that the author, Paul Roberts, has just produced a book called The…

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Splendid Food for a Mexican Wedding

By Rachel Laudan May 20, 2008 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Mexican Food 3 Comments

Anyone living in a foreign country cannot resist a little (or a lot) of amateur anthropologizing. I listen avidly to my walking companions’ descriptions of the round of groups, pot…

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Agua Fresca 7. Barley Water

By Rachel Laudan May 19, 2008 Drink, Food History 26 Comments

This, my friends, is a nice glass of barley water: milky in color, so mild in flavor as to be almost tasteless, a little body on the tongue, and one…

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