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Did Elizabeth David Test Recipes? Eat Your Words, Rachel

By Rachel Laudan July 8, 2014 Food Politics, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens 22 Comments

Some time ago, writing about Elizabeth David and Julia Child, I cheerfully said of the former “I would bet a good bit that she had never cooked most of those…

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Whose French Cooking? What French Cooking?

By Rachel Laudan August 30, 2009 Food History, Modern Food 5 Comments

In the 1960s, many middle class women (and I was one of them) and men too in England and the United States were swept up in French cooking, in England…

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