Rachel Laudan

Round up on griddle-baked thin pastry

By Rachel Laudan July 22, 2010 Bread, Food History, Globalization Then and Now 12 Comments

Thank you everyone who has responded here, and on Facebook or Twitter, or via personal emails. Once again, I am amazed at the way these tools speed up intellectual interaction.  …

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Griddle Baked Pastry in Andhra Pradesh and (?) in Eritrea

By Rachel Laudan July 22, 2010 Bread, Food History, Globalization Then and Now 5 Comments

Thanks so much for so many comments.  I’ll be replying properly when I have done my “real” work for the day.  But one more example to throw into the discussion,…

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Bread, Celestial Made. Or Bread’s Long Journey to Hawaii

By Rachel Laudan May 21, 2010 Bread, Food History, Globalization Then and Now, Hawaiian Food 7 Comments

Here’s something I’ve been wanting to post for some time.  This ad appeared in Honolulu in a weekly, The Polynesian, in June 1840.  If it’s hard to read the words,…

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