Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

Thinking About the Land 3 i: The Farmer as a New Role in the 18th-Century

By Rachel Laudan October 13, 2019 Farming, Food Politics, Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 16 Comments

Farming goes back millennia, right? At least to the ‘agricultural revolution?’ Well, only if we use the word ‘farming’ loosely as we often do today to mean cultivating the land…

Maida Heatter and Molly O’Neill, RIP.

By Rachel Laudan June 18, 2019 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food Politics, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens, Taste 3 Comments

Two fine food writers, each of them important to me in very different ways, have died in the past few months. What better way to remember them than by turning…

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. …

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A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

Thinking About the Land 3 i: The Farmer as a New Role in the 18th-Century

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