Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

The Japanese Butter Shortage: Changing Tastes and the Food Crisis

By Rachel Laudan May 1, 2008 Food History, Food Politics, Globalization Then and Now, Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 2 Comments

The Japanese are short of butter and considering emergency imports, according to the Wall Street Journal. How the worm turns, at least on the biggish historical scale. A hundred and…

Books that shed light. Richards, The Unending Frontier

By Rachel Laudan September 1, 2007 Food History No Comments

For the past several weeks I’ve been perusing John F. Richards’ The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (California, 2005). There’s a lot of it to…

Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

The Japanese Butter Shortage: Changing Tastes and the Food Crisis

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