Rachel Laudan

Good as Far as It Goes, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough: Nigella Lawson’s Defense of Home Cooking

By Rachel Laudan April 15, 2018 Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens, Modern Food 32 Comments

Nigella Lawson, for readers who do not live in the English-speaking world or who do not follow cookbook trends, is an extremely smart, capable and hardworking Englishwoman who for the past…

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Isn’t Farming More Significant than Food Processing for Human History?

By Rachel Laudan December 18, 2017 Bread, Food History, Food Politics, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens 12 Comments

Quick Answer: No Hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans lost the ability to do well on a raw diet. From then on they had to cook (here used as…

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Before the Pot, Before the Basket . . . the Gourd

By Rachel Laudan November 23, 2017 Food History, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens, Hawaiian Food 8 Comments
Before the Pot, Before the Basket . . . the Gourd

It’s all very well to talk about how the use of fire changed the course of human evolution but then in the deep past, as now, standing in front of…

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