Rachel Laudan

Savory puddings (or the lack thereof) in 19th century Mexico

By Rachel Laudan November 4, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food History, Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food 1 Comment

To reply to Peter Herzmann’s comment, black pudding (or its Spanish Mexican equivalent) is alive and well in the Diccionario. There are three pages on morcilla and morcon, blood sausage,…

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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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