Rachel Laudan

The world food crisis, at least as reported by the press, has passed.  Here’s an article about the Thais trying to find ways to prop up the falling price of…

Here’s a question I have been pondering.  For much of history, missionaries were potent agents of culinary change.  When people converted to Buddhism or Islam or Christianity (which usually meant…

Thanks to the Comision Federal de Electricidad we have been having power surges, black outs, brown outs, blown out power sources etc for the past week.  When it is safe…