Rachel Laudan

I am beginning to get canned messages from various groups involved in food politics.  Up to now I have posted them.  But I am issuing a warning.  This is a…

The gourmet was typically a rich male amateur to whom food was a passion. Foodies are typically an aspiring professional couple to whom food is a fashion. A fashion? The…

Thanks to everyone who commented on my story about English tea.   One moral I have drawn is never use the passive. Because there were no downstairs staff. My grandmother, who…