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Sugar, Salt, and Fossil Fuels

By Rachel Laudan May 20, 2013 Food Politics 3 Comments

Thanks to Lane Turner, staff photographer and pictorial editor for the Boston Globe, for putting together a wonderful slide show of (largely) traditional methods of producing sugar and salt. via Sugar…

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Butter Churn Technology: What’s the Breakthrough?

By Rachel Laudan December 3, 2012 Food History 6 Comments

Over at Slate, Farhad Manjoo, their technology columnist, takes on the question of butter technology. My homemade butter was delicious, just about the best butter I’d ever tasted. (I am…

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