Rachel Laudan

Cooking Across Cultures, Classes, and Sexes in the 1930s: The Extraordinary Career of Mary Sia

By Rachel Laudan August 26, 2012 Food History, Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now 14 Comments

When I taught at the University of Hawai‘i in the 1980s, I often wandered into the university bookstore during the lunch hour. Always on the shelf of local cookbooks was…

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The Milking Stool and the Next Month

By Rachel Laudan April 25, 2012 English Food, Food History 22 Comments

  This is one of the family milking stools.  Yes, it’s as short as it looks, just about twleve inches high, just right to reach a cow’s udder. By the…

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Those brown spots, swollen joints and tender gums

By Rachel Laudan April 8, 2012 Food History, Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now, Modern Food No Comments

He was just a little boy.  He lived in the country.  So why were brown spots spreading on his skin, why were his joints swollen and aching, why were his…

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