Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take

Before the Pot, Before the Basket . . . the Gourd

By Rachel Laudan November 23, 2017 Food History, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens, Hawaiian Food 8 Comments

It’s all very well to talk about how the use of fire changed the course of human evolution but then in the deep past, as now, standing in front of…

“Plain and Simple:” The Ideal Diet for a Child According to John Locke

By Rachel Laudan November 14, 2017 Bread, Drink, English Food, Food History, Food Politics 9 Comments

“As for [the child’s] diet, it ought to be very plain and simple,” said the philosopher and political theorist John Locke in 1693 in his Thoughts Concerning Education. Bread, bread,…

So What is a Kitchen?

By Rachel Laudan November 9, 2017 English Food, Food History, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens 2 Comments

“What is a kitchen?” sounds like an easy question to answer, right? A kitchen is a room where you cook. Well, in fact, like everything, the history of food preparation…

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