Rachel Laudan

Pudding and Informal Empire

By Rachel Laudan November 4, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food History, Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food 4 Comments

I thought it might be fun to follow up the fortunes of pudding elsewhere than in Greece about which you can read here and here and here (comments). Here’s the…

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The spread of British food

By Rachel Laudan October 30, 2009 Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now, Hawaiian Food 11 Comments

Here are some products I bought in Hawaii’s Chinatown some years ago (and wrote about in The Food of Paradise. Left to right back row: Quaker Oats (in a can…

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Julia and Elizabeth: Ladies of Power

By Rachel Laudan August 13, 2009 Food History, Food Politics, Modern Food, Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 6 Comments

OK, I did read Mastering from cover to cover–many times. OK, before that I had read French Provincial Cooking, well, a lot more than I ever read Mastering. Now I…

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