Rachel Laudan

Why is Sweden growing GM Potatoes?

By Rachel Laudan June 13, 2010 Food History, Food Politics 2 Comments

For starch for industry, not for food, not now. ‘Development began in the mid-1980s, at the beginning of the revolution in biotech foods. A Swedish farmers’ cooperative, Lyckeby, one of…

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Migrants, Nationalism and Culinary Heritage

By Rachel Laudan June 12, 2010 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now, Hawaiian Food, Modern Food 9 Comments

Back to the question of culinary heritage that I blogged about a couple of weeks ago.  And to my book, The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii’s Culinary Heritage. When I…

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What is culinary heritage?

By Rachel Laudan May 17, 2010 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food History, Food Politics, Mexican Food, Modern Food 23 Comments

I’m supposed to know something about culinary heritage.   Exploring Hawaii’s Culinary Heritage is the subtitle of the book I published in the 1990s on the extraordinary foods of the Islands. …

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