Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

What Should be Taught in School Cooking Classes (Assuming They Should Be Reinstated Which I Doubt)

By Rachel Laudan March 30, 2020 Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens, Modern Food 20 Comments

In January I put together a tentative syllabus for a school cooking class directed at early teens. I thought then it might seem ridiculous so I did not post it.…

Is the fresh the enemy of good canned food?

By Rachel Laudan February 15, 2014 Food Politics, Modern Food, Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 22 Comments

There’s that wise old saw that the best is the enemy of the good. And I’ve been wondering recently if the drumbeat that fresh vegetables (and other foods) are the…

Eggs up, chicken up, beans up: trouble looms for food politics in Mexico

By Rachel Laudan August 25, 2012 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food Politics, Modern Food No Comments

I was surprised several years ago in Mexico to discover that a kilo of eggs cost about the same as a kilo of tortillas, somewhere around a dollar for either.…

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Rachel Laudan

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