Rachel Laudan

Regional Cuisine as Cultural Inertia. From Adam Balic

By Rachel Laudan January 6, 2011 Food History, Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now, Oddities and Things that Don't Fit No Comments

In huge haste because I’m on the point of driving to the US and my (expletives deleted) Mac Book computer is on the brink, but I really wanted to send…

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Mexican-American Flappers-Lazy at the Metate

By Rachel Laudan January 5, 2011 Food History, Food Politics, Grinding No Comments

Flappers with bobbed hair in 1920s America were not just Anglos.  Mexican Americans in Texas also bobbed their hair. Here’s a translation of a song, Las Pelonas, the bobbed hairs. …

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Cuisine and Language 7. Loan Words, Loan Ingredients

By Rachel Laudan December 28, 2010 Food History 12 Comments

Linguists use the term loan words for terms borrowed from another language.  Would this help clarify the discussion of what are popularly called “fusion cuisines?”   The more I think about…

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