Rachel Laudan

Until Friday

By Rachel Laudan September 10, 2008 Oddities and Things that Don't Fit No Comments

Thanks so much for all the comments.  I’m off on a jaunt to a neighboring town tomorrow to visit friends and poke about.  And I’m not the kind of organized…

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Does Slow Food Do Anything?

By Rachel Laudan September 8, 2008 Food Politics, Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 8 Comments

Thanks Adam and Ji-Young for the comments on my previous post on Slow Food. I agree that until now the movement has been more programmatic (shall we say?) than activist.…

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Small appliances for grinding Mexican masa

By Rachel Laudan September 4, 2008 Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 5 Comments

The irrepressible Steve Sando (Rancho Gordo) sent me this link to a thread on the Mouthfuls forum detailing his search for a small appliance that would wet grind nixtamalized maize…

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