Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

My Mother Never Had to Go Grocery Shopping

By Rachel Laudan April 24, 2019 Bread, English Food, Food History, Modern Food 18 Comments

My story about how my mother and many others of her generation found cooking to be thankless and unremitting labor is consistently one of my most popular posts. Where my…

US Foreign Policy, the Flaky Flatbread Called Parotta, and Where Does Asafoetida Fit?

By Rachel Laudan March 11, 2019 Bread, Food History, Food Politics, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens, Globalization Then and Now, Modern Food 1 Comment

Back to Malabar Parotta, which as I said in my last post was new to me but which I learn is thriving as a street food and Indian processed food. …

Variety, Discrimination, and Mexican Breads

By Rachel Laudan January 28, 2019 Bread, Food History, Mexican Food, Modern Food, Taste 5 Comments

For a long time I’ve been interested in how perceptions of variety in food have shifted as countries have become more prosperous. In particular, variety comes to be seen as…

Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

My Mother Never Had to Go Grocery Shopping

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