Rachel Laudan

No sweat

By Rachel Laudan October 24, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food History, Mexican Food 4 Comments

Really, grinding’s no sweat.  Put on a pretty dress, find ribbons for your hair, layer on the jewelry, hang your hat in the corner of the kitchen and buckle down…

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How do we classify cuisines?

By Rachel Laudan October 22, 2009 Food History 9 Comments

O.K I am with the big units, but in to use the language analogy to be part of the language family, a word or concept has to be recognisable as…

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Families of techniques or families of cuisines?

By Rachel Laudan October 10, 2009 Food History 6 Comments

A quick response to Diana Buja and Adam Balic. Diana, Glad to have your support for the idea that there are probably more mutually unintelligible cuisines than there are unintelligible…

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